Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I don't think people should think of women's issues as auxiliary issues - they are central.