The best way to deal with the deficit is through economic growth.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

At a certain point in her life, she realises it is not so much that she wants to have a child as that she does not want not to have a child, or not to have had a child.

The purest definition of “religious” is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

Play what you know and then play above that

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.