Politics is a substitute for violence.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. (Mark Epstein)

Every blessing is a challenge to work.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.