America is great, because America is good. And it really is up to all of us to make that true, now and in the future, and particularly for our children and our grandchildren.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

Evangelicals now stand among those who are on easiest terms with the world, for they have lost their capacity for dissent.

To maintain your integrity, just maintain your words in sanctity, and your works in sincerity. You can't be really trusted when your works of today are standing against your words of yesterday!

Harbour love, not hate - don't let it contaminate your heart and conceal your beauty.

Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

That's what happens if you don't address the darkness in you. You become repressed and depressed and suicidal.

The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store.

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.