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

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.

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

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.

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.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!

We said we'd never tour ... and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.

Rejoice at the death and cry at the birth: New Orleans sticks close to the Scriptures.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

When you're born in fire, smoke will never do.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.