When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

As a 10-year-old girl, I would listen to my grandmother discuss issues, and she made a lasting impression on me.

I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nations faith in its elected leaders.

Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie."