For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

No country can get ahead when it leaves half of its people behind.

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

I want to make them [American Indians] live forever. It's such a big dream I can't see it all.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

Despite its increased dependence on the international economy, America continues to behave as if it were either a closed economy or the leader whom everyone else should automatically follow.

For a second, I'm afraid he's dying. I have to remind myself that I don't care.