I think it actually strengthens your critique when you aren't just "no" on everything.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

Joy is something we can’t manufacture. Joy happens to us not because of us.

Life is a journey

This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.

I am a little crazy but when I'm on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it's like an outlet. It's fun to 'wild' out.

I want people to judge me on what we have achieved after five years. I will go back to my home in Bermuda, play some golf and live a healthier life.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.