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.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

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

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.