"I do believe that during the Bush-Cheney administration, that Vice President Cheney set a tone and an attitude for the CIA."

"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

"If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval."

"I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs."

"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair."

"I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations."