Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help.

What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.

A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.

Because Katrina put it out there, no one can play the pretend game anymore that there isn't poverty and inequality in this country. The Millions More Movement - Katrina gives it added significance.

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

I am interested in art as a means of living a life

After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience.

Every nerve in my body says to run after Thaddeus and tell him everything. But I know there's no way he can know the truth.

I believe Innovation is more likely to emerge from a culture of encouragement.

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

I have always tried to stay current.