Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

You just do it one step at a time.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.