"The Good-Old-Boy network is fading. Get used to women in Congress and in business, they're here to stay. That's a good thing."

"This 'honor killing' is a form of extremism. It's something outside of religion. This is political. And it's sickness. Society has got to stand up and scream about this. This has nothing to do with religion, nothing to do with poverty. This is common in these Islamist countries."

"I would love to send American feminists over there. There is one place where they would serve a very good purpose: whipping into shape the society of the Islamist world."