I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society together. They bring a reverence to life that's instinctual, not just intellectual.

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.