We do always have to make sure we keep people safe.

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.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

Very few USA citizens realize that the USA corporate military is regarded by many to be both a domestic and international terrorist organization.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

I spent most of my time thinking, because I didn't have enough energy to do anything else.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

You do have an effect on the universe. If you think positive thoughts, if you are happy and progressive, then that energy affects everyone on the whole planet, in subtle ways, perhaps, but it does.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.