We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.

Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes.

Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds inequality and makes life more difficult for people.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

I am a firm believer in the mission of the health centers, which offer cost-effective comprehensive primary and preventive services to at-risk people.

Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy.

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

Where there is love, there are no faults. Where the love of give-and-take (dealer) arose, all faults will be seen there.

I am happy to be alive.

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

A life is no less valuable or beloved if one lives in an age of decline, than in an age of progress.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

Are they Russian by way of the Ozarks?

I did not know what my future was going to hold.

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will probably help prevent a lot of psychosis.

God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.