Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.