“I believe the leader’s ultimate job is to spread hope.”

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don’t always come out and say it directly.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole – I was an advance man.

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

it used to be almost the first question (just after ‘Can you type?’) in the standard female job interview: ‘Are you now, or have you ever, contemplated marriage, motherhood, or the violent overthrow of the U.S. government?

I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.

We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.