I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.
Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.
I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.
I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.
I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.
I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.
I certainly feel a strong call of public service.
Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'
I always knew I was the center of my parents.
I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.
My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
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.
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.
Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.
