We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

Women can't do everything at the same time, we need to understand milestones in our lives comes in segments.

In diplomacy, clear-cut wins and losses are rare.

There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.