The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.

Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

...I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend again because you know him already.

Love is recognition, perhaps the highest form of it. You.

I've never lost my love for acting. I feel really at home on the movie set. I'm a more balanced person honestly when I'm working.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?