I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.

Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.

But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.

I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.