The importance of education plays a huge role.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

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.

We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

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.

The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

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