I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.
People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.
I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
I saw an opportunity to use a restaurant to identify a lot of my issues and concerns with being an immigrant in America, and Asian in America, and a young person in America.
I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.
This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safety of the American people or our ability to protect the American homeland.
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom.
If I were attorney general in Kansas in 1953, I would not have defended a Kansas statute that put in place separate-but-equal facilities.
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.
I'm on the ground, I've been in swing states, I've been talking to the American people, I've been out there speaking on behalf of Obama's record, I've been in the trenches.
The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.
President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
