For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'
It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.
These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.
I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.
That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
Secret bank accounts are for laundering dirty money. Heads of state at the UN should put an end them. That would be the best way of tracking down the drug traffickers.
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.
The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.
There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.
