Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but nothing stuck.
Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful.
African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.
I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.
Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.
My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.
