My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.

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

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

I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us.

I believe that it is my job to fight for the rights of others to have the same rights that I take for granted. As a white, American male, I have had it quite good. I recognize that and fight every day for everyone to have the same opportunities that I have had.

I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.

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.