While we are each free to believe whatever we choose, we cannot do whatever we choose.

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.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I'll do anything for kids but I don't sign anything for grownups anymore.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

My only hope was to be polite.

Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.

I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.