"The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption."

"We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure."

"It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel."

"America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech."

"You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."

"There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration."