My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

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.

Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.

Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.

Prioritize activities under the captions “important” and “urgent”. Do the urgent things first and the important things later.

There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.