There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

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.

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

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.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. My only hope is that, one day soon, women who have all earned the right to their opinions -- instead of being called 'opinionated' will be called smart and well-informed, just like men.