I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

What is an unconditional state?

...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.

We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.