If you're too dangerous to fly, you're too dangerous to buy a gun.

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.

all you had to do was to keep your insanity undercontrol

Call your heroes. They have telephones too.

Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built.

The cooking side is the easier way to be creative. On the policy side, it's harder to think of new approaches to problems.

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.