“I am my happiest self when generations in my family are getting together and I'm cooking.”

“The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair, and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals.”

“I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles and the analysis about where there is the intersection, right?”

“Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers.”

“Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.”

“A little integrity is better than any career.”

“Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.”

“At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!”