"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

"I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear."

"If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that."

"And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them."

"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."

"I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer."

"I always planned to retire when I was at the top and at Manchester United I have reached the pinnacle of my career."

"The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business."