The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.