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.

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.

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

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

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

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.

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

We don't win what we don't fight for.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

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

The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

Life is pulled by goals and pushed by drive. Make sure you have both!

We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.

I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates your level of attention.

The cure to your self is that you are not yours.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.

I remember being 18, and my first boyfriend said to me, "Unless you're in the room, you don't know if it's true." We were talking about gossip.