I want young people to be involved, and I especially want young people to vote.

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.

Suffering becomes beautiful whenever a person bears great calamities with cheerfulness.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

You can be the hunter, or you can be the hunted.

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

There is something nice about wearing the same thing everyday, having that go-to.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.