The word gap leads to an achievement gap and has life-long consequences

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.

Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.

In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them, he should rise again.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.