We are stronger together. We are stronger together in facing our internal challenges and our external ones.

I believe in a zone of privacy.

I know that some of those plans [of the North Korea] could very well lead to a missile that might reach Hawaii, if not the West Coast. We do have to try to get the countries in the region to work with us to do everything we can to confine, and constrain them.

Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.

I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

Religion is about God's truth, but none of us can grasp that truth absolutely, because of our own imperfections and limitations. We are only children of God, not God. Therefore, we must not attempt to fit God into little boxes, claiming that He supports this or that political position. This is not only bad theology; it marginalizes God.

It's important to underscore this overriding fact: women are not just victims of conflict-they are agents of peace and agents of change.