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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.