Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

I'm proud to be a Democrat.

This is a divine path.

Those who cannot have your love, will gladly accept your hatred.

There will always be something a little off, but like a three-legged dog, you’ll learn to walk again.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.

We must persuade Iran not t have nuclear weapons through peaceful and diplomatic means. We want a peaceful planet.

Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.