The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

As long as the G.O.P. led by its increasingly visible women continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests the gender gap won't go away.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

My children to the extent that they have found religion have found it from me in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews you have to give value to the criticism.

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity or if it is insisted upon by a commander irresponsibility.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.