I think that the notion of justice and the issues and values that I understood growing up and [have] continued to embrace throughout my life and into my career have been the same.

You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.

To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives.

You need the activism. You need people who are organized and willing to bring light to injustices in society.

I know that so many women don't have a choice. They could lose their job if they say, 'I need to leave because I don't have childcare.'

You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those issues. That's where the politics and t

Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

A simple life is its own reward.

Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain