Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break.

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.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

When you have a clear vision of your goal, it's easier to take the first step toward it.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.