In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

Our desire to grow, to make a place for ourselves… to know we have counted in the lives of others, is healthy and necessary to our existence…

Too many people are counting on you to cross that finish line. Please don't disappoint yourself and them.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

Your brain has one function-to do exactly what you tell it to do.

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

Make it a goal to be somebody's hero.

Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round.

I don't think fear necessarily is a core human emotion, but I do think fear of death is something that is at the core of every person's existence.