Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

The ordinary are here to fit into the world

If one cannot see gravitation acting here, he has no soul.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love.

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.