I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

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.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world.

That's how he saw climbing, a physical exercise in positive and negative space. The vast expanse of white drawing the small, person-shaped speck into sharp relief.

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing.

I can't take his genius any more.

There's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.