The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.