As a nation, there are many issues we don't talk about, we just don't talk about, push them under the rug. Poverty is one of those issues.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

It's better to show up than to give up.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

It is much more enjoyable to love success than to hate failure.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

The irony of love is that it guarantees some degree of anger, fear and criticism.

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Something’s died in me,” she goes. “It took a long time for it to do it, but it’s dead. You’ve killed something, just like you’d took an axe to it. Everything is dirt now.

Everywhere I go I'm always spotted on the streets.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.