“I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.”
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“I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.”
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“I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but a...”
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“My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She re...”
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“Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.”
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“Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.”
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“When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.”
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“My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and...”
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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 st...”
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“When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.”
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“I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her daughter. I'm so grateful that she is Charlotte's and Aiden's grandmother. She makes me p...”
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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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“I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.”
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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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“A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.”
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“We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.”
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“I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.”
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“My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those pe...”
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“I remember that my mom, my dad and I would play different roles in mock debates, where one of us would be the moderator, one of us would be my dad - frequently not my dad - and then one of u...”
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“As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.”
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“My father has always been such a doer.”
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