The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.

The only place where we're going to be completely relieved of pain is in Heaven.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.

Cautious, like crossing a river in the winter.

I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.