The World It Changing Very Quickly And

For Me, Having A Daughter Made Me Much More Efficient And Productive. I Would Wake Up In The Morning Trying To Figure Out How To Organize My Day So That I Could Get Home. The Phone Calls With Friends, The Lunches Out With Colleagues - All Of That Got Scrapped So That I Could Be As Efficient And Productive As Possible.

I Just Worry A Lot. I'm A Worrier. Michelle And Barack Are Really Dear To Me. I Mean, I Love Them. And I Don't Want To See Them Get Hurt. Just The Nature Of Politics Is Hurtful. So Every Time They Are Hurt, I Get Hurt. It's A Lot To Ask Of People, And It's A Lot To See Your Friends Go Through. It's Hard Not To Get Emotional.

The Ada Was A Landmark Civil Rights Legislation. It Was A Bill Of Rights For Persons With Disabilities, A Formal Acknowledgement That Americans With Disabilities Are Americans First And That They're Entitled To The Same Rights And Freedoms As Everybody Else.

Change Is Never Fast Enough To Satisfy Us. I Still Hear Too Many Stories Of Women Who Go Back To Work Too Soon, But I Do Believe That We Have Been Able To Change The Paradigm In Attitudes Towards Family Leave In That It's No Longer A Nice Thing To Do For Women, It's A Must Do For Competitiveness, And That's A Big Change Over The Last Seven Years. Changing It Into An Economic Issue Is A Big Sea Change In The Last Seven Years.

Instead Of Sitting On The Sidelines, President Obama Has Made It Clear That The Us Is Ready To Lead A Global Effort To Combat Climate Change.