Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

The greatest and toughest part of learning is unlearning to learn.

The greatest roadblock to Satan’s work is the Christian who, above all else, lives for God, walks with integrity, is filled with the Spirit, and is obedient to God’s truth.

I read therefore I write.

I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Adrian Peterson is redefining the way teams defend the running ability.

Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.

I will say what I want to say. I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.