There are different views about what's good for our country, our economy, and our leadership in the world.

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.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

Get in the habit of visualizing yourself standing at the victory line of your dream, but at the same time, be sure to accompany your positive imagination with consistent actions.

Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.

I really think it's a white, bourgeois idea to pretend that you don't have influences. It seems to be the obsession strictly of white people in college.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

See your weakness as a reason to pray the more, it should not be the reason for sadness or to abandon your post.

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.