Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by.

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office.

My wife and I, Delice and I, are empty nesters.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.

What am I?" she asked ..."You are mine, " he answered roughly, his forehead still on hers.

...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.

The best thing about the world today is that everyone is connected and you can go online and quickly find people all over the world doing incredible things.

The hardest thing of love is to let go.

I am honored and lucky to be one of the first films funded by Gamechanger Films, a consortium of investors who finance movies directed by women.

I was raised inside the gang culture.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, So shall they be fulfilled.

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.

I have no idea what my limits are. I believe that if I set my mind to it, within the next fifteen years, I would be the President of the United States.