There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.
Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.
Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.
You’re not always going to make the right decisions, but you have to be guided by what you think is important.
Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.
The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.
I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.
Yet again, the family of a young black man is grieving a life cut short. Yet again, the streets of an American city are marred by violence. What we have seen in Baltimore should, indeed I think does, tear at our soul.
I think you know by now that I’ve been called many things by many people. Quitter is not one of them.
Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.
Motown, Motown, that’s my era. Those are my people.
It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.
You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.
The episodic, reactive, almost frantic pace of what is broadcast makes children feel and act frantic and shortens their attention spans and their patience for activities that take time and problems that don’t yield immediate solutions.
The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama.
We will never build enough prisons to end our crime problem.
Our future matters, and it is up to us to take it back.
Of all the jobs I’ve had, sliming fish was pretty good preparation for life in Washington.
I wasn’t born a first lady or a senator. I wasn’t born a Democrat. I wasn’t born a lawyer or an advocate for women’s rights and human rights. I wasn’t born a wife or a mother.
If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours.