I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

Politics is social work with power.

We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Evening came, a paw, to the gray hut by the river.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

Impatience makes us get ahead of ourselves, reaching out for something in the future and not really being content with where we are, here and now.

What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

Like the alchemist of old, for ever searching for the philosopher's stone, the analyst to-day never stops looking for stronger moves to prevent the defender from establishing equality.

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.