"This is her, the rape victim" [This Week's Voices]

"'This is her, the rape victim.' I raise my eyes and look at a Congolese woman in her 40s who is breastfeeding. Marie-Honorine, my colleague from the International Rescue Committee, a specialist in working with survivors of sexual violence, points to the Bambi-eyed 14-month-old girl at the woman’s breast and says: 'No, that is the victim.'"

"We must seize, without delay, the strategic moment, and move decisively to build the foundations for durable peace and stability in Somalia,"

"Best we can do to demonstrate solidarity with hungarian liberation forces… is to rush at once massive quantities relief supplies … we are preparing  for tragic possibility soviet recapture control of hungary, when countless escapees will flood into austria and must be ready with resources."

"I’m not a parent myself, so that first day I didn’t know quite what to expect.  But neither, I think, did my two co-directors on the project, both mothers ... One thing we all seriously underestimated was just how quick and smart these girls are.  They’ve been way ahead of us the whole time."

"The United States has a moral obligation to give refuge to these and other vulnerable Iraqis, including widowed women with children and the tens of thousands who put their lives on the line to work for Americans in Iraq and are in danger as a result."