It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

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.

Many a woman is in a relationship with or married to her man not because she loves him but only because she likes men like him.

All who die, are all worldly beings (sansari – believing the worldly life to be real).

Grab a pen and your turf will have no limits.

Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.

I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on. Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.

We can observe the Fourth Commandment by loving visits to our aging grandparents

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.