Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

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.

A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

There's something beautifully soothing about a fact — even (or perhaps especially) if we're not sure what it means.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

I personally subscribe to the belief that normal is just a setting on the dryer.

Don't be the team that gets hurt.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.