"What I protect is 'choice' itself."
"The right to choose kindness instead of being forced into it, the freedom to choose hope instead of having no option but despair, the possibility of choosing love instead of being condemned to destroy one another, the ability to rise after falling, to believe in the light even in darkness, and, even after learning that the world is imperfect, to still want to build it: that clumsy, precious courage."
"As long as the right to 'choose' remains, humanity's story is nowhere near its final page."
"And I was once honored to fight to protect that 'choice' until the very end."
