The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.

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.

Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything.-Lula

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Success needs you to give yourself goals to aim for.

To create is to be divine.

The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.

The dead have a presence.

The whole idea is to earn the flavor. No one gives it to you.

Looking and seeing are two different things.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.