I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

I launched into my speech, it took me a few seconds to realize that the only one listening was max (the dog) but at least he had the good manners to stop chewing the toilet brush and pay attention.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

You must seek the divinity within with all your heart, soul and mind.

When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.

I am not the German Tony Blair. Nor am I the German Bill Clinton. I am Gerhard Schroeder, chancellor of Germany, responsible for Germany. I don't want to be a copy of anyone.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

So acoustic, I don't even need a pick.

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.