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I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
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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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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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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 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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My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.
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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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When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.
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My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.
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I lead a multi-faith life.
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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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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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I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
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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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My father has always been such a doer.
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I certainly feel a strong call of public service.
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I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.
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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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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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For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.
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Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.
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The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.
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We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.