Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

God’s perfect plan and purpose shall be fulfilled in my life.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?

I'm competitive, so I don't like to feel marginalized by the people who sell a lot of records.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.