There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

When I ask the young people from California why they want to go to New York, and the ones from the East why they're determined to go West, I hear what you'd expect: new challenges, different weather, boyfriends, girlfriends, to make a name... They laugh when I say, 'But your poor mother.'

When I was applying to college, my mother told me I could apply to any school within the Boston subway map.

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