I believe in America, and I still do.

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.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

When I finally make up my mind that I want to do something, it's never been hard for me to do.

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

I think books find their way to you when you need them. Whenever I feel like I'm not going to live to read all the books I want to read, I remind myself that the important ones find their way to me.