"If I died a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying."

"I am a woman, but I am also a human being."

"A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."

"I have often wondered whether it is right to be so deeply involved in politics, for it leaves little time for other things."

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."