Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

You have the power to realise your dream. If only you are willing and determined.

One dies the way he lives.

An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism!

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.