I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.

It was during George W. Bush's presidency that Iran mastered the nuclear fuel cycle, that they built covert facilities, that they stocked them with centrifuges, that they were spinning merrily away toward getting a nuclear-weapons program.

We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.