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

It’s impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

Women standing up for each other is critically important.

I want to teach. I want to speak. I want to travel.

I’m undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

Hard men present hard choices – none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

Motown, Motown, that’s my era. Those are my people.

I respect the Congress’s oversight responsibility.

I sometimes think that I didn’t leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don’t want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

I’ve had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers – that is what should be happening in America.

The idea of America is so wonderful because the more equal something is, the more American it is.

In the United States, we’ve always been held together by the belief that it doesn’t matter where you came from. It matters where you’re going.

And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.