We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children.

When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.

When it comes to social issues such as the role of the family, I'm certainly more conservative than Angela Merkel. But on the big questions on what direction and where Germany should develop, when it comes to the economy, then we have very similar views.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.