Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.