Struggles only move forward when decent men and women step forward and say, 'enough is enough and no more.'

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Investing one cent more in oil, coal and gas is investing in the death of society, and the in the death of our children.

You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

Sandy was a climate change warning. Obama must now take the stage and fulfil the promise of hope the world needs.

The reality is today most of our political leaders want to be treated as gods and semi-gods, from the security details to the fuss around them and so on.

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.

I think even though he [Nelson Mandela] was feted and praised as he was, he always was at pains to say, I'm a human being.

When we are no longer children we are already dead

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

The worse feeling is when someone makes you feel special, then suddenly leaves you hanging, and you have to act like you don't care at all.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?