We've got a lot of down-ballot candidates that are also being lifted up by this campaign [for Presidency in 2016]. If we don't take a stand at some point and begin to stand our ground, we are never going to begin to move forward. We've got to do that.
We've got a lot of ...
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I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You could say, very concerned about our younger generation that does not have the jobs they need to get themselves out of the debt that they're in. And have the full weight of the climate crisis exploding on them - on their watch.
I used to practice clinical medicine. Now I practice political medicine, because it's the mother of all illnesses.
[My parents] were very interested in social justice issues, and there was a time, very early on, where my mother, I think, actually went to some demonstrations for integrating housing.
[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.