I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system.

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.

Who needed Prozac when a girl could get Pillsbury without a prescription?" ~Allie Shelby, Personal Assets

Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition.

Every good deed is acceptable goodness.

Live in a dream gives numerous advantages and a dream that comes true give all the miracles we need in life

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

I play harder when my family is watching.

William Shakespeare sounds to me like some kind of faggot.

Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.