“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”

“I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them. One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them.”