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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

I can feel glamorous without makeup, especially on my lips. They're naturally reddish, so I often let them go.

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.

When you say to somebody, "I'd like to recommend a book to you," you're typically talking to a person who is willing to learn, grow, or change.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

Winning a trophy is always nice, but my personal satisfaction comes from reflecting on the passion, motivation, and determination that went into getting me there.