I'm proud to be a Democrat.

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...

You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.

Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

You can be helping many people, but if you are not helping yourself, you have missed the one person you were born to heal.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.