Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university's board of trustees for more than three decades.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

In this forest of humanity we hate each other more than we love each other. When we will learn to love each other, only then we will see the peace.

Never concede to evil…. When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

[I'm] more German than Irish.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big.

It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

I prefer to conduct my life based on how I treat people.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.