“I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.”

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don’t contribute to the growth of their countries.

I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

Dynamism is a function of change.

I’ve never understood multi-party democracy. It’s hard enough with two parties.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

You can’t just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I want to make a difference.

I helped to restore America’s leadership.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

I mean, I’m a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life’s work.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching ‘We are all one.’

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it’s the best perch… because most of my work crosses boundaries.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.