People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take 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.

Love is something we must have. We must have it because our spirits feed upon it.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

God, I miss you," he said in a voice that cracked. "Every night. Every day.

I can't imagine anybody disagrees with President Trump when he says, if we don't take care of our veterans, who are we really as a nation?

I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

I'm bi-lots of things but lingual isn't one of them. Wait, did I mean to say that?

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.