Congress has decided to cut funding for Head Start programs. Just last month we received a one percent cut and they're anticipating we're going to receive another one percent cut.

[After the end of her term in Congress, Barbara Jordan was recruited for a faculty position at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.] I thought, now what better thing could I do than to go there, ... to the University of Texas, to the LBJ School and help those young people become the bright leaders of government as Lyndon Johnson so wanted?

Don't let anyone tell you you can't live your dream. You can. I got started late, but I stuck with it.

Intermittently it would ring, but there was nobody on it. It was dead.

I think most writers, if they will admit it, have stories in their head all the time ... . The problem with writers is we have too many stories.

In our own life, we don't have a lot of control over our world. When I make my own world, I'm in control. I can put them into trouble. I can get them out of trouble.