“Nicholas this is one of those 'yes' or 'no' questions again. You seem to have a problem with those. Did you or did you not kill a woman - Jo”

“But what is the benefit (you have done me)? That you did not kill me at Brundisium?”
Sed quo beneficio? quod me Brundisi non occideris?

“Judge: "You are prevaricating, sir. Did you or did you not sleep with this woman?"
Co-respondent: "Not a wink, my lord!"”

“Did you hotwire this car?" I then rephrased my question. "Did you STEAL this car?”

“The House will forgive me for quoting five democratic questions that I have developed during my life. If one meets a powerful person—Rupert Murdoch, perhaps, or Joe Stalin or Hitler—one can ask five questions: what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you exercise it; to whom are you accountable; and, how can we get rid of you? Anyone who cannot answer the last of those questions does not live in a democratic system.”

“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”

“We also have a fundamental right to not carry a pain that we did not choose. Whether you’re born black or gay or a woman or Jewish, you didn’t choose it. You have to be the person in charge of it saying your story, again and again. When it is something you are forced to recount, there’s something violent about it…”

“I don't call every woman a woman, whether you like it or not... There's only one thing that makes a woman beautiful and that's haya (modesty) and wafa (loyalty). If you don't have those, I call you non-women.”

“The problem isn't hierarchy, authority or superiority. The problem is that people in positions of authority or superiority did not take you as a part of themselves and thus did not consider you and thus did not act in alignment with your best interests.”

“because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.”