If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

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.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

But remember, there's no greater gift than the present.

If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I went in and I got the role.

You can't make good scores happen. You've got to let it happen.

So you can look me in the eye and say that you are a president committed to cleaning up the environment?

You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.