I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

Life isn't fair, but government must be.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'