I try to be a person of faith.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

In politics, there are no friends.

We have the capacity to make sure that every mother has pre-natal care. Yet, we don't do it. What is it about America? It says we don't value children and families. We are hypocrites.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

If it's wrong for 13-year-old inner-city girls to have babies without the benefit of marriage, it's wrong for rich celebrities, and we ought to stop putting them on the cover of People magazine.