The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.

Donald Trump has every intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as much because it's known as Obamacare [as because he wants] to try and deconstruct the legacy of President Obama. But that has implications that mean women who were accessing family planning and contraception as a preventative service with no co-pay will lose access to that coverage. We [will] only see an exacerbation of the things we were engaged in trying to prevent - like unplanned pregnancy and the need for abortion, which creates a societal dilemma.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.

We can take that as a notion that we don't know exactly what [Trump] is going to do, but we can't afford to take a position of waiting around to see.

There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.

We have to work under the assumption that the things that we fought hard for to protect women will be under assault, and we have to bring all our creativity and our energy to bear to preserve those things, no matter who is in the White House.