I was proud to be an original cosponsor of the Violence Against Women Act when Congress passed it in 1994, and was proud to support the previous renewals in 2000 and 2005. These bills always enjoyed large, bipartisan support.

We're going to school for higher education in higher numbers, but the numbers still show we're not breaking though the glass ceiling. For every Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton there are millions of women stuck in cement on the floor that are not getting up.

I firmly believe that if you help a woman, then you educate a child, you help the family. Because women are very focused on health care and education and on the family. So if you help a woman, you help the family, you help the village, you help the country. And so empowering women is a very important part of moving, not just women forward, but the economy of the nation forward. Particularly in very substandard nations.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

Women deserve the same permanent rights and explicit protections given men in the Constitution.

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.