I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

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.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Nobody can tell your story the way you can tell your story.

I feel the matter of my heart being transformed, metallized, in an optimism of steel.

What you have stolen can never be yours.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had

I have a lot of male friends that I go the cinema with and movie and shopping. A lot of men friends I know love shopping.

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again.

These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity.