I am a conservative and proud of it.

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.

The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.

Start each action with overwhelming positivity enthusiasm and each action will be overwhelmingly successful.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

Christ sets us free by the power of His Spirit; then He maintains our freedom as we learn to live from day to day in the power of that Spirit.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.