Growing up in a school that was majority white, my understanding of the world was that I was different but that differences shouldn't be talked about because it's uncomfortable.

Protest is best used when it's part of a strategy that involves escalating tactics that build pressure on targets.

I think that there is an element where leadership is lonely, but I also believe that it doesn't have to be like that.

We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

My father was not in power when I started my political career, or when I fought my first election in 1996. Starting like any ordinary person, I reached out to people everywhere.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.