From my perspective it matters what we do, not what we say. It mattered that we got Bin Laden, not the name we called him.

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.

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .