I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.

We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

We co-create our reality with others in unseen ways.

Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

You can be in a crowd full of friends and be miserable because you're alienated. The ego alienates.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.