Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.

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.

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36).

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest.

My career could have been prolonged for longer

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

All political and religious systems have their root and their strength in the innate conservatism of the human mind, and its intense fear of autonomy.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind.