On the board of a financial institution, especially one that took TARP money, it has changed radically because the regulators have been vocal about what they want boards to do and how involved they want boards to be in the management of a company.
I love Joe Biden, but he's not going to defeat Donald Trump. He's not. He doesn't have the energy and, quite frankly, he has a lot of baggage.
One of the great things about The New York Women's Foundation is we raise money and give it in grants to small community-based organizations focused on helping women help themselves - around domestic violence, economic security, education, and sexual rights.
We have to fundamentally change the way people are elected to political office in this country, as well as the types of people that are going into political office. It's dysfunctional because people on each side are only talking to themselves - they're not talking to each other and that is a function of how they get elected.
The last time I checked, the president was supposed to sit down and figure out what he wanted and then get Congress to go along with it.
I think one of the problem that most women have is that they're not really good at advocating for themselves. They're great at advocating for other people.
I'm often being singled out because of who my significant other is. That's nice when his approval rating is 70 percent, not so nice when it's not.
For some reason, the executive world is not conducive to women as much as to men. There are reasons for that. Women multitask; men by-and-large are much better at doing one thing at a time.
A couple of words that somebody said to somebody many years ago is not who they are today. You regret it, you apologize, you make it right, you move on and you live your life according to the values of what you have.
One thing that I found is that everybody has an interesting story.
Always make sure that you can support yourself and that you always have a cushion. And never, ever, depend on anyone else for money.
You need to look at people's values and what they have done.
I've always had my own career and my own stuff that I was working on.
I have a really close family, and I'm proud of the life I've created for myself.
It's always disconcerting when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, 'I know who you are.'
Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn't happen that way.
Opportunities arrive and you think, 'Wow, that seems like a really good idea.' You take risks. If they don't work out, you move on.
It was the first fight I had with my father. My father basically said, why are you going to business school? You're just going to get married and have kids and you won't use your degree. And it's expensive. We had a knockdown, drag-out fight, which was great. Yeah. In the driveway. My father said, 'You're on your own.'
I hate 'girlfriend' because it sounds so temporary. It's very junior high.
I was was never really exposed to anybody who wasn't just like me until, basically, I went to college.
