Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

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.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Sometimes, to regain sanity, one had to acknowledge and embrace the madness.

I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.

Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs.

You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

Your garbage, transformed, is your gift.