I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

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.

I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.

Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements....

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

I don't know how, but I know Who

The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming.

I believe in health care reform. I don't believe in the way this bill was passed.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

As a landscape photographer we should be open to possibilities, for one thing often leads to another.

I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.