America is a nation of immigrants. We have to have a functioning immigration system.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Forgive me now - tomorrow I may no longer feel guilty.

Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell - and I mean that in a Christian way.

I continue to steward what God has given for me for such a time as this.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.

No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.