I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

When confronted by conflict and confusion, another practice is to take a deep breath, pause and ask: 'Where is the gift in this?

I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking.

For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement.

You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.