It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

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

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

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?".

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.