Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

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.

In life, those with heart certainly outdo those with ‘smart’.

Blessed is the society with elderly souls.

Begin asking how you may be of service and you will soon discover that the true gift is in your giving.

Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

Oprah is rich, Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out a fuckin' window and slit his throat on the way down saying, "I can't even put gas in my plane!"

What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.