Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.

I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

When a woman has the opportunity to speak truth to power, it's important that she does, even if it's just trying to get a crosswalk in her neighborhood. That's how social change happens!

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nations faith in its elected leaders.

I don't think clients you represented as an associate are relevant ... I think how you vote is relevant.

To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live.

The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

I wouldn't change my life for the world at the moment.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.