The best thing to know is what you don't know.

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining; I'm about getting things done.

I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.