At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.