“Gay rights are human rights.”

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life.

I don’t think we should be about the business of denying voters in Michigan and Florida the right to be heard.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

We believe strongly that the road to peace and two states living side by side does not go through New York, it goes through Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don’t.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

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.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

We’re all together as a country and as a family.

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

One of the basic things we’re asking states to do is ratify all relevant gender equality standards.

I don’t need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

When a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.

I don’t say women’s rights – I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.