The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.