For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.

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.

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

...there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arteries, Old veinsThat hold Glamorgan's blood.The midnight miner in the secret seams, Limb, life, and

I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

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

I have never once feared the devil, but I tremble every time I enter the pulpit.

You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.