New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

Broadway now is presented in about 90 cities across the United States, and the touring business seems to continue to be very healthy.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

[It] consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

We're going to use this Amadou Diallo case to stop this in these United States once and for all. Just like we needed the federal government to come into Alabama and Mississippi 30 years ago, we need the federal government to come into New York to deal with the police today.

We have overcomplicated the issue, ... The United States has been attacked on its territory with thousands of casualties. All the United States is saying it cannot tolerate weapons of mass destruction in that region.