Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

I try to be a person of faith.