In fact, most people who are bullies are people who have been abused in one way or the other in some other part of their life, and somebody who is bullied at school might come home and bully their younger siblings or their cousins or other people in their neighborhood, or in cyberspace.

We owe our children an environment in which they can flourish, and where law enforcement, the justice system, and society as offers them a fresh start, not a jail cell.

Mourning is tough. But faith and family are the greatest sources of strength.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

When it comes to my Uncle Jack, my father, or any other loved ones we've lost, I believe in honoring lives, not deaths.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

There were times I should have been completely emotionally available to my kids and I wasn't there, even for reading a book with them or watching TV or tucking my daughter into bed.

I married a politician. But I thought it would be tough for my children to have two parents as politicians.

Throughout Africa, as in much of the world, women are responsible for tilling the fields, deciding what to plant, nurturing the crops, and harvesting the food. They are the first to be aware of environmental damage that harms agricultural production.

It's important to reach out to people who are marginalized.

Daddy loved our country, he loved our history. He was always talking about American history and telling us stories from American history, and loved our most treasured values of freedom, democracy, justice.

So I think that having Donald Trump as president of our country, and also his impact around the world, would have left my father in dismay.

I loved that television show Mad Men because it really was a reminder of what reality was back then.

After my father died, we went to church for a long time every day, and then every other day during the summer.

I have to tell you, virtually every country I've gone to, the Catholic church is on the cutting edge of social change. Really extraordinary.

I thought of running for office when I was in law school, but I wanted to work on human rights.

Elective office is one of many ways to serve the community and the country. It's one that I would consider at some point.

It's hard to have both parents involved in elective office at the same time.

I have 10 brothers and sisters. My mother raised us because my father died when I was 8.

The time of day when there was quiet and serenity was every night when we gathered in my parents' bedroom and knelt down together and prayed.

I myself am a soccer mom, a volleyball mom and a basketball mom.

I grew up outside of Washington D.C., a town in which the largest industry is government and in which almost everyone I knew was involved in creating policies which impact people across our country and around the globe.

Having a sense of humor is a part of being courageous. It's a source of strength.

I think of myself as a human-rights advocate and as a mother.

Ambien is one of the most prescribed pills in America. A lot of people take it every night or several times a week or several times a month in order to help them sleep. I'm just not one of those people. That's the perception of me. But that's not the reality.

So when people say how horrible it is that Donald Trump is president, well, yeah, but we've faced a lot worse than this and our country went on to go from the world of 'Mad Men' to the world it is today, and that's what's going to happen now. That's what's going to happen in the next 50 years. We're going to be fine.

There are no wealthy people on Rikers Island because if you are wealthy, you go free because you make bail.

My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go to visit him at the Justice Department and take the tunnel over to the FBI building and watch the sharpshooters at practice.

Those who suffer profoundly are granted profound wisdom.

I've learned powerful lessons about the nature of forgiveness from human rights defenders. For example, for the greater good of his country, Kofi Woods emerged from a torture chamber in Liberia to later defend the very men who had brutalized him.

Forgiveness is a gift, and central to faith.

Look, my mother's not a welfare woman. She certainly had plenty of help. But there's no substitute for a husband and partner.

There was no sense of burden, like, 'I now must carry on Robert Kennedy's unfinished work.' Absolutely not.

Every time you say 'I don't want to hear it' when someone is going to tell an ethnic joke, or every time you help somebody cross the street or put money in the bucket in your place of worship, you're making a difference.

I appreciate that Marco Rubio has called for immigration reform but he goes back and forth on it a little bit.

Well, I don't think any of the Republicans have expressed any interest in supporting the vision of Robert Kennedy at all. At least I haven't seen that.

I think that on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and poverty alleviation, and those issues are so important.

When people ask me what's really important about my father, I think the most important thing about him was his moral imagination.

I think there are many Democrats who are good, strong leaders. The person I like the most is my nephew, Congressman Joe Kennedy.

Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their kids to good schools. They want something done about poverty.

Dr. King gave his life to peace and justice and reconciliation between people, black and white, rich and poor, and he was a great hero for not only people who were oppressed in our country but for people who believed in justice both here and around the world.

The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have agreed and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the covenants of Human Rights and that includes the right to food, the right to water, the right to housing and the right to education.

When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow.

There are very few women in the Senate and very few mothers.

I'm told that as a child, when my dad was alive, I'd get up, put on my coat and go sit in the back of his car. The driver would just go around the neighborhood - as long as I had my little trip, I was happy.

You can't live in the past and say, 'if only.' You have to pick up and move along and make the world better.

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.

My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses and pipes.

My husband is in politics and my kids are already a campaign organ for him and I really love being their mother.

For many Mexican human rights defenders, confronting the military does not end so well.