Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

I suspect I'm the only politician in America who won an election in this last cycle with TV ads saying I was going to try to pass the first single-payer system in America.

Everyone sounded the same when they died.

Music is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe.

We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth

Keep good men company and you shall be of their number.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway.

The human desire to know why is as powerful as the desire to know what happened next, and it is a desire of a higher order.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.