I have made the cause of children and families really my life's work.

Don't tear other people down. Lift people up.

We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously.

I've never seen people as physically distraught as the Bush administration team was because of what was happening to the economy. I personally believe that the steps that President Obama took saved the economy. He doesn't get the credit he deserves for taking some very hard positions. But it was a terrible recession. So now we've dug ourselves out of it, we're standing, but we're not yet running.

I have never lost faith in America's essential goodness and greatness.

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.