"Government" is the name we give to the things we choose to do together.

It's time for democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Be present - and see what a difference it makes in your lives and in the world.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

Don't tell me words don't matter.

It's a free country. I wish it weren't.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

Being angry, resentful, or saddened by rejection can suck the sweetness out of acceptance.

A good product can last forever.

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.