Quotes

If we allow our sovereign rights to be violated ... then the territory would no longer be our territory.

Clearly, U.S. cooperation with China is absolutely essential to successful efforts to combat climate change.

She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.

I hope to challenge the ideas of beauty in gay culture. Putting a gay disabled character on TV is my number one dream.

When out of all the poets who received the Pulitzer -- the prize awarded to those who made the biggest contributions to the human spirit -- 38 percent of them were bipolar, how can we simply label it a human disorder? Think how much more they could contribute to the human spirit if they knew it could be used as a gift to humanity, instead of something to hide from humanity?

See? I knew he wasn’t really human.

We always have a concern when we see the rhetoric rising against any particular group in America, that it might inspire others to violent action — and that violent action is what we would have to deal with.

We're all children of this earth, and we need to work together so that everyone has a chance at having a decent life.

But just as it is the responsibility of Muslims around the world to root out misguided ideas that lead to radicalization, it is the responsibility of all Americans -- of every faith -- to reject discrimination.

I’m surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are, and how quickly we lose courage.

In the days after the massacre, a lot of politicians in Washington expressed their thoughts and prayers. People said this time would be different. But since then, Congress has done something incredible: nothing at all.

Only government that sends power back to the people can make American confident again.