I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.

I am deeply inspired by the courage and achievements of young people who didn't have the safety nets I had growing up.

I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.

We must change the culture of politics first.

Let us not aspire to four-year goals but rather forty-year goals.

Do ballet and play football. Sing and dance. Laugh and cry.

When a young person is not eating three meals a day but still getting perfect grades at school, or when a young person deals with trauma at a young age yet still makes it to college, these are the things that inspire me.