There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.

Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Whether it's on the streets of Philadelphia or New York or Chicago or Atlanta or in a classroom in Newtown, Connecticut, people want to be safe.

Everyone felt comfortable with these guys and what their vision was, and when they said they want to keep the staff intact, that was very encouraging.

I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to be shot.

Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends. Had she not been about to rob the train.

Every travel gives me new thought into life.

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.