We've got to provide additional help to small businesses so that they can afford to provide health insurance.

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.

She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

Stay with me; I want to be alone

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

A few years later the Naval Academy was founded at Annapolis, and a similar course was pursued to provide it with a corps of instructors.