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.

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.

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.

Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.

It is so good that you can love someone for how long you want and no one can arrest you for that crime.

In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from one context to the next . . .

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.

Perfect happiness, by princes sought, Is not with birth born, nor exchequers bought.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

Actors should arouse a sense of wonder because of their ability to exceed what the spectators can envision ever being able to do.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.