“The most powerful thing we own is our vote.”

I’ve always been me. I’ve always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney.

From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.

Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama’s vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it’s an easy choice.

Unlike Mitt Romney, President Obama is standing up for Planned Parenthood.

I have spent my tenure in office – and, in fact, my adult lifetime – fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It’s the most loquacious of all. You really can’t get a word in edgeways.

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.

I’m mostly self-taught. I didn’t learn much in school.

One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the ‘dirt’ than in spite of it.