Millennium Trails will be very tangible gifts to the future. We will walk on them and hike on them and bike on them. They will be accessible to people of all ages and abilities. But in a very important way they represent more than the tangible effect of the trail. They represent a commitment and an investment in what kind of country we want in the next century.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Every day, no matter what is happening around me, I consciously try to discipline my own feelings and my mind about what I have to be grateful for, because by any stretch of the imagination - even during the worst times when people are accusing me of things and doing all that they do - I'm a very lucky person.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.