Kirsten Gillibrand

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

As we all know, there is no harder or more rewarding job than being a mom.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.