Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.