You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

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.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

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.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.