At the end of the day, you have to be yourself, you have to say and stand for what you believe in, you have to be willing to get up and go ahead and take the slings and arrows and just try to persist through them, because it's apparently an inevitable part of our American democracy.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

We have an authorization to use military force against terrorists. We passed it after 9/11.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.