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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.

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

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.

Everyone who has had success in his or her field of endeavor has had a mentor along the way.

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.

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.

Daddy was never ruthless but he was tough.

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

I went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart for four years. It was interesting to me because, in a family where men were clearly favored over women, this was an atmosphere, a world, run by strong, determined, smart women in leadership, who had high expectations of the girls, and this tremendous sense of love and commitment to the wider world.

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.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

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'm not the most organized person.

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

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

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've got to pass legislation which will allow people to have access to competent counsel no matter who they are.

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.

When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

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

My earliest memories are of visiting the justice department.

My father loved democracy. He loved the ancient Greeks because they invented democracy, and he shared their contempt for those who refused to participate in the political process.

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.

I understood at a young age that administrations come and go, but laws stay. So I decided to become a lawyer in order to help create a more just and peaceful world, not just in a fleeting moment but in a way that will endure from one generation to the next.

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

In a sense, all of us have the capacity to be courageous.

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.

In my human-rights work, perhaps the most important thing is gaining the trust of the victims.

The result of being a Kennedy is that I have extraordinary opportunities that I wouldn't otherwise have.

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.

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

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.

Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'

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.

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

When I started working in human rights, Eastern Europe was communist, South Africa was under apartheid and South Korea had military rule. All the changes have come about not because of the militaries or government but because small groups of people spoke out against what was unfair and unjust.

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.

I love presidential campaigns. It is a time when people are feeling what is going on in the heart of our country.

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