The most important qualification is that the person I pick be ready to become president if something were to happen.

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.

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just good, strong, modern music.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.