What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

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 human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

Solitude was a spell that freed her.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

That's the spirit, one part brave, three parts fool.

Musicians can look forward to playing with the best musicians that ever played. They can even have their own band!

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time” . . . they’re lying

The '60s was the end of the America that the rest of the world liked.

There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of its way for it will give you no peace until you do.

Every human being is a designer