I want every business to compete and thrive.

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.

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

Boys are like drugs,' her father said, 'just say no.

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.

More time [to decide] without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Only those who know how to breathe will survive.

I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.