“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.”
“We were raised in a community where we were taught to see a world, beyond just ourselves. To be conscious and compassionate about the struggles of all people.”
“I just think it's so important not to take yourself too seriously.”
“Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.”
“Culture is - it is a reflection of our moment in our time, right? And in present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment.”
“I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.”
“We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks, because we know community banks are in the community, and understand the needs and desires of that community as well as the talent and capacity of community.”
“As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.”
“Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.”
“That's what justice represents to me - it's about empowerment of the people.”
“A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.”
“One of the things that I do to relax at the end of the day is I read recipes.”
“I often advocate that we look at many sides of an issue, walk in someone else's shoes, and identify and reject false choices.”
“Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.”
“If I'm cooking, I feel like I'm in control of my life.”
“Anti-Semitism is real in this country.”
“My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.”
“If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.”
“The bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don't have money.”
“Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.”
“Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.”
