God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Why are guns the only unregulated consumer products in America? We regulate toy guns and teddy bears, but we do not regulate a product that kills 4,600 children a year.

You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.

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.

In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.