Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

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.

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.

I don't think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should, for making the decision to have an abortion.

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.

Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the palpability of signs, deepens the fundamental dichotomy of signs and objects.

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.