I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

My most important identity now is as a mother.