We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish.

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

I'm proud to be a Democrat.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

The landscapist lives in silence.

I don't have any spiritual anything.You shoot a guy with a gun, he dies. You step on a bug, the bug dies. There is no heaven for me and no hell. And certainly not any Karma.

In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

Our deepest need is to be seen.

Sometimes it is hell, trying to get to heaven.