What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.

I believe that, we're better when we're moving forward. We're stronger together, so that's what I'm going to be doing.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

The only way that American troops could have stayed in Iraq is to get an agreement from the then-Iraqi government that would have protected our troops, and the Iraqi government would not give that.

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.