Hillary Clinton tweeted "Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay. The Clinton campaign has since announced that Clinton will travel to Charlotte.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

It is tha action that we're taking NOWThat will determine our FUTURE lives.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

The greatest thing that science teaches you is the law of unintended consequences.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.