Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.

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.

An effective life is anchored on the ability to look into your life and see results in line with your creation

Keep the body's energy frequencies high by always thinking positively.

It seems like there are so many homesick people in the world. It seems like so many of us live far away from where we were born.

I have lost my smile inside the dim nature of people.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

Pleasure is always something apposed to pain it is never separate from pain