Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out about a century ago that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

For the life of me I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not going to happen and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.

If you want a love message to be heard it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender race ethnicity language or other such characteristics.

I think the biggest thing was that I was putting pressure on myself leading up to Beijing. Now I am learning how to take that pressure off and seeing this as an incredible opportunity but not like 'I absolutely have to medal.'

I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline carrying it out.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now after years of rebuilding our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.