Life is full of choices, but you never get any!
If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.
It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.
Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.
Children who are read to learn two things: First, that reading is worthwhile, and second, that they are worthwhile.
Nobody had a bigger heart or passion to win than America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine "Pre. " Watch the movies Prefontaine, Without Limits, or Fire on the Track to see what I'm talking about.
At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies - a band I ended up playing with a lot - and it just brought out this thing in me. . . and it felt very different from the Indigo Girls.
Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.
I want to play in a place people want to hear me.