Mimi Kennedy

“You need someone in your life to give you advice without yelling at you.”

“Playing Ann Landers is like channeling my mother. That combination of love and the enjoyment of life is my mother. And you find that combination in Ann Landers' letters.”

“I've always been a good ensemble player.”

“The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.”

“Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death!”

“Election victories increasingly depend on factors other than who votes, or tries to vote, and for whom. In 2000, the presidency was awarded by the Supreme Court, pre-empting the count of thousands of Florida votes.”

“I have no idea how things work in the life beyond what we know with our senses.”

“Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans' anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.”

“For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.”

“I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America.”

“We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.”

“From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.”

“Progressives make money and spend money on businesses that meet needs instead of kill people! The future is in meeting needs - unto the bourgeois business of cleaning the drapes! - not spewing death and destruction with kickbacks.”

“I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.”

“I'm old enough to remember when 'Law and Order' was once the Republican campaign slogan.”

“Some of us only meet in the most fleeting moments; some of us never meet, but still hear about one another and therefore cherish what we know from what we've heard, and mourn the loss, even though we're spared what the close-loved ones must endure - the ongoing pain of an empty place in the heart for the rest of life.”

“The Soviet Union was a one-party state. In such states, enemies of the party become enemies of the state, and the state can punish with full weight of prosecution.”

“The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.”

“Across the nation, the election protection movement attracts ordinary citizens who educate their neighbors about their voting systems and the private companies that built and run them.”

“My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.”