That has to come to an end and end now. No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

A house is never small or empty, when filled with love.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

If I don't do what I need to do to win, I won't win, no matter who is on the other side of the net.

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

I'm the only actress in Hollywood who didn't pay to have these lips.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.