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Clothes are incredibly symbolic.
The business of government is justice.
I am a thorn in the side of designers.
I hate yoga pants anywhere but the gym.
What we do stems directly from what we believe.
Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.
When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.
I'm not a vintage/thrift shop girl. I don't have the patience.
I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.
How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?
Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.
Love is a decision, not just an emotion. It is selfless, and a commitment.
Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.
Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.
There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.
I get enough fashion news in my professional life. I like interiors during my downtime.
You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.
I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.
Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.
Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.
For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.
The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.
Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.
Influence comes out of the work that you've done and the things you've stood for. Influence and power shouldn't be given to just anybody who wants them.
If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.
Sometimes those who bloom too early fade fast. Michael Kors struggled for years - and endured bankruptcy - before he became all rich and famous and fabulous.
Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.
One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.
I like some of the oversized silhouettes. It's a nice change and exudes ease. Also like the upmarket street wear. It's fashion that reaches people where they live but looks polished.
The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.
Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty.
In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.
In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.
You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.
I have a rule that I don't review shows from photographs or from video. I certainly might go back and look at photographs and look at video to remind myself of something or for personal information. But I never review from that.
In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.
There is nothing "useful" about fashion, which is why it is fashion and not clothes. My personal opinion about the runway is that it should be used to whisk the audience off to a fantasy world that is possible, but not probably. It should delight and inspire.
I do think younger women have to figure out how to combine their own sense of style with what is appropriate and authoritative. Some young women think there's no reason why they can't wear flip flops in the office in the summer because their accomplishments should exempt them from a stodgy dress code.
The money that is spent in elections is absolutely unconscionable - even if it's private money. It's true that one's not corrupted by the expenditure of one's own money, but to some extent the system is. We cannot have a system in which the only people you can count on for a vote that doesn't look as though it might be a vote for a special-interest group are people with enormous fortunes.