“I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.”

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.

There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what’s going on here.

This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it’s not the poorest. It’s not the people at the economic fringes. It’s people who worked hard and played by the rules.

If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.

It’s better to fight because if you don’t fight, you can’t win. Besides, even when you don’t win, you can change the game.

I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.

It’s a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women’s access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever.

My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.

We don’t win what we don’t fight for.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn’t love a lot.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

Leadership is stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable!

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Your heart is your home, and all roads lead to home.

The best leaders are servant leaders – they serve those they lead.

Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior to intellectualized learning.