No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

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.

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.

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

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Don't be afraid of hard work.