If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.

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.

When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not.

You really are a badass, edgy guy who tells it like it is...about couscous.

Land degradation did not start with chemical agriculture. But chemical agriculture offered new tools for annihilation.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

He who loves brings God and the World together.

Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.

Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.