Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

It's better to show up than to give up.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds

The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

If it's not in your heart you're not gonna make it. At the end, looking back, you know its worth it.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Even people who don't believe in science still have to believe in gravity.

My mom did a good job exposing me to different types of music.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.