12/08/2014
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"This proud woman from the Bronx is perhaps the best and the brightest we have."
"Sonia represents the best of American culture. She comes directly from the strand of our national character that says, 'You can be anything you want.'"
"We were surrounded by people making do on little. Sometimes there was desperation and despair."
"When I walk into the Capitol to work every day, I often stop and think how fortunate I am as a kid from a Bronx project to make it here."