Celebrity

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

Determination gets you a long way.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

I love my parents, and I want my mother to be president.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.

I never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas. And I always, always knew how deeply they loved me. That feeling of being valued and loved, that's what my mom wants for every child.

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.

Through their 'Making a Difference' franchise, I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.

I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'

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.

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

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 prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.