Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

I had a really unusual, remarkably unusual father because he, in our family, was the one that suffered the most. He was the one that explained American democracy to me. He said, ‘Our democracy is a people’s democracy and it can be as great as people can be, and it can be great… but we are also fallible human beings.’

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.