“I’ve been really at the highest levels of American political life. Hillary Clinton”

It’s so much more fun to watch FOX when it’s someone else being blitzed & sacked!

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 have many, many old friends, and I always think that it`s important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what`s on their minds.

We’ll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

I always run inclusive and successful organisations.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs.

Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.

Gay rights are human rights.

Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion.

You have to be true to yourself.

It should never be a crime to be gay.

I’m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

When I first met Nelson Mandela, I burst into tears. He is one of the greatest Heroes of my life.⁣

Aloneness is your nature. You were born alone, you will die alone. And you are living alone without understanding it, without being fully aware of it. You misunderstand aloneness as loneliness; it is simply a misunderstanding. You are sufficient unto yourself.

Life is like a confused teacher. First she gives the test and then teaches the lesson.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere common places of existence.

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is, at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.