Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

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.

When the wind blows in your face, when you feel you are losing your head, when the going gets tough, and when all else fails, look inside you, you are not alone.

Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.

The Abrahamic God is a disease masquerading as its own remedy which we desperately need to cure.

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

I don't really go out to clubs, but if I did, I'd just want to go rock out with my mates or whatever.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

I like creating villains.

A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.