A simple leather jacket... has gotten me through cocktail parties in New York and cold nights in Afghanistan.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.

It's incumbent on good public servants to maintain their voices and originality of thinking.

I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

For every young person I meet, I learn an idea.