I try to read for pleasure whenever I can – it’s a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn’t get fried.
I have won elections and I have lost elections.
I know that so many of us hoped that, by electing our first black president, we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. But, despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from finished.
I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink.
My own country’s record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect.
Being LGBT does not make you less human.
Every day Americans and their families need a champion, a champion who will fight for them every single day. And I want to be that champion. I want to get up every single day going to work for you, standing up for you.
It is a violation of human rights when governments declare it illegal to be gay.
Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.
Violence toward women isn’t cultural; it’s criminal.
What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.
No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.
Caring for others is an expression of what it means to be fully human.
As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I’m comfortable in this church.
It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.
I like live audiences, with real people – virtual reality is no substitute.
It takes a village to raise a child.
We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan.
I’m still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.
While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.