The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison

Envy is a sign that you are being overtaken

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

Emerging church leaders are not impressed by those who defend the Christian faith by promoting definitive answers to convince those who doubt the faith.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye.