In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

Ability means all of us finding our strengths and putting them to full use.

I'm committed to working with teachers.

People need to see where their dollars are going and what infrastructure is being built.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

My plan is to govern as long as I can.

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

I've been driving since I was 19 years old.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Find the most puzzling kind of art you can think of, and then go out and try to approximate it with your camera. Take a photograph that corresponds to it. (Assignment to students.)

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.

Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.