These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.

In order to find balance, I feel very strongly about two things in particular in terms of routine. Work out, and eat well.

I love being in a courtroom.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll just read a cookbook.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.