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"However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice."
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"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."

"Unfortunately, bureaucratic problems at the federal level are causing many other small Washington companies to be denied federal funding that would help transfer their ideas from their laboratories into our homes and hospitals."

"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."

"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."

"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

"As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths."

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."
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"I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides."


"I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands."


"We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world."


"Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline."


"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime."


"There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000."


"It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose."


"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government."


"I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament."


"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."
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