Kirsten Gillibrand

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.

For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.