It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean, literally on the stage and off the stage, around the convention about women, about minorities, about Muslims, about immigrants.

You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

I really believe that with a little bit of information, kids can make a big difference.

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you. She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.