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.

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.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

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

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

Service is the rent we pay for living.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.