You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.

All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.

When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.