I am determined that we're going to get the economy really moving again, building on the progress, but never going back to what got us in trouble in the first place.

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 will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.

Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.

The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving forward and doing my best for the Thrashers.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

Yesterday's dangerous idea is today's orthodoxy and tomorrow's cliché.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.