I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

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 universe evolved from something and nothing, and has most of these elemental dualpair until now.

How can you not love reading? It's wonderful. An excursion, an adventure... an escape from reality.' She adored reading and had a hard time grasping anyone not loving it.

My daughter, dad where do homeless people come from? My answer, everywhere.

Doesn´t matter who you are or what you believe. Everybody has a ghost story

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.