Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are.

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.

Freedom does not mean being free of something, but to be free to do something.

I never underestimated myself. And I never saw anything wrong with ambition.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Ladies, it is not your education, status or personality that has brought you here but the elegance of God which was still and still working upon you.

Nobody in Europe will be abandoned. Nobody in Europe will be excluded. Europe only succeeds if we work together.

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

The wound is the seed of wonder.

Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.~The Moon Master

The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heardby listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

The number of rooms in a fictional house should be inversely proportional to the years during which the couple living in that house enjoyed true happiness.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

Don't listen to people who tell you what to do. Listen people who encourage you to do what's right in your heart.