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

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

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

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.

That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.

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.

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