I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.

Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

If we people become more helpful to others, there will be much less tragedy in the world!

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

The superior man is easy to serve, but difficult to please ... The inferior man is difficult to serve, but easy to please.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

When I'm dead I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.

What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.

I realize why women die in childbirth - it's preferable.

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.