Pastoral Resources

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.

But I do know this: that the two and a half years that I've been at HUD, I am absolutely convinced that some of the best workers in the world are in Federal Government.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua?

The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.