So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

In politics, there are no friends.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.