To start to look more focused on the good that's been done and can be done.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

To find your promise land is your ultimate destiny

the general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

We increased expenses, particularly in two areas: the military. If I put somebody in harm's way, they're going to get the best, as far as I'm concerned.

Well I ain't no movie star but I can get behind anything!

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.