When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

All lives have an equal value.

We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

One life is worth no more or less than any other