Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.

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's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

The hero is the one with ideas.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.