We were arguing about what was good to deal with making education fairer, diverse and more American. We were not arguing about where black scientists get a good education.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Breathe of life, living soul.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

A world without war is not in the cards.

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.