On the spending, don't forget bridges and roads. It's like puppies and ice cream - who doesn't like them?

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.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

Hit the bottom and get back up

I really believe that there is an enormous appetite amongst readers for an originality of vision. In other words, be true to your own dreams and there will always be people who want to hear them.

Love does not dominate it cultivates.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.