“Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that’s how I see it.”

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

I don’t want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago – until the Republicans brought them back.

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

I’m proud of my Native American heritage.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.’ No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own – nobody.

If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.

Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.

Donald Trump doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.

My mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

People who walk away from you without a clear conversation or a willingness to see your heart decided who you were long time ago. Let them go.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.

SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one’s life, without being influenced in one’s decision by any inordinate affection.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Every journey starts with a decision.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.