Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Every woman is beautiful. Every woman is amazing because every woman’s heart is filled with the motherly instinct of unconditional love.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

Take therefore no thought of the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.

To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

There's no reason to stop. Who knows what's around the bend? To participate, meet new people. It's mostly other musicians and people like you, or anybody I meet who's in this, that keeps me going.