I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

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