Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few.

Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

We have a moral responsibility to protect the earth and ensure that our children and grandchildren have a healthy and sustainable environment in which to live.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

I'm heartened by the growing awareness of global warming among important communities and organizations in our nation.

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. I lost three times before I got elected. There's no limit. Stay in pursuit of your dreams.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

The most positive men are the most credulous, since they most believe themselves, and advise most with their falsest flatterer and worst enemy--their own self-love.

Evelyn: There's nothing wrong with embracing one's emotions. Brittany: Mom, You don't just embrace your emotions, you make love to them hard-core.

I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.