If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct.

People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.

One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.

Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Love as if you are living just to love. Live as if your life depends on love.

Success is just around the corner from difficulty.

Animal protection is education to the humanity.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.

The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.