Ideology

They're attacking women's health.

We were raised to live simply, not to waste. It was a lesson my mother taught me every rainy morning. You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

I can't not march. I march for women who have made that wrong decision and suffered greatly; [but] most of all I march for the unborn.

Let me be very clear: the single most offensive name that you can call an American Indian is ‘Redskin.’

Oprah marched on Selma this weekend. She has a dream that Selma shall overcome The Wedding Ringer at the box office.

Those people were real. They were mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, doctors and teachers, poets, wonderful people. Composers. And now they scream in silence. My story is only one story, but it is the story six million others cannot tell. I was, and always shall be, the witness to ... mass murder.

It's about spiritual leadership. When women bring their young boys and they see women leading the prayer, they can initiate change as they grow up.

Can I vaccinate anyone who approaches me in Stand Your Ground states?

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

We are dealing in lethal firearms. I’m not going to let a Nazi shoot in here, or a Klu Klux Klan member in here, either.

And while there are people of good conscience on both sides of this argument, one thing has become abundantly clear to me: the heavy hand of government must not make this decision for women and families.

Albums – like books and black lives - they still matter.