I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

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.

Greatness can only be bought through time.

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?

Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.

The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.