If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.

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.

Life cannot be in existence without time

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.