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I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.
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My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
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Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.
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I lead a multi-faith life.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.
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When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.
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I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.
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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that.
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I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
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My father has always been such a doer.
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I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.
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People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.
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There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need.
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Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.
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I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
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And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.
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For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.
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I certainly feel a strong call of public service.
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I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.
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We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.
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Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.
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My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.