The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

We all do better, when we all do better.

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.

The future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

When you meet a person as good-hearted as a child, don't ever be selfish, just give them your best and you will become great friends.

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal.

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it.

I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change.