The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

Cynicism cripples our imagination and limits our ability to see faint possibilities amidst glaring problems.

If you want the things people don't have, you have to do the things other people will not do.

Gender bias is real. I was an early Barack Obama supporter, and I was even shocked at the way the media treated President Obama vs. how they treated Secretary Hillary Clinton. Questions that were asked about, what is wearing, how much does she weigh, about her hair were never ascribed to the president.

You need to understand something, you drink deeply from wells of freedom and liberty and opportunity that you did not dig. You eat lavishly from banquet tables prepared for you by your ancestors. You sit under the shade of trees that you did not plant or cultivate or care for. You have a choice in life, you can just sit back, getting fat, dumb, and happy, consuming all the blessings put before you, or it can metabolize inside of you, become fuel to get you into the fight, to make this democracy real, to make it true to its words that we can be a nation of liberty and justice for all.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.