Voting is a civic sacrament - the highest responsibility we have as Americans.

When I was a prosecutor in San Francisco I would get advice on trying cases from public defenders and defense attorneys.

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.