Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

History takes time. History makes memory.

History does not merely touch on language but takes place in it.

Well I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

The biggest mistakes early on involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are without recognizing it causing to themselves.