I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

We make progress only when people are willing to speak about what their lives are like and what they care about. We make it possible for others to understand our perspective.

Our democracy flourishes when people stand up for themselves and engage in the political process.

I do [believe climate change is man-made].

I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.

I have the endorsement of the Sierra Club, and I'm very proud of that.

When people hear good music it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

I miss you, but I haven't met you yet!

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.