It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

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.

You can't be what you can't see.

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?".

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.