Every American has the right to feel safe in their schools, in their churches, in their movie theaters, and in their nightclubs.

With a measly 18 percent of our Congress composed of women, the U.S. ranks just 77th in the world in terms of women in elected office, surpassed by such countries as Ezbekistan and Moldova.

Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.

Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.

It's not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ones.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.

Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus.

Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.

Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.

The greatest good is what we do for others.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.