What is happening in Iraq now is awful, but it is a consequence of our invasion, not our withdrawal.

There's no more personal issue than gun violence; every one of these stories is a life lost, i'm hoping that over the long term, as I tell these stories, that it will help to open people's eyes.

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

The absence of fear is love.

I wake up ready to right and I feel like I'm on the right side of history every day.

Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

Frankly, when you twin the language of assassination threats with Donald Trump's suggestion that a Hillary Clinton electoral victory would be illegitimate, it scares the hell out of me.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, “What kind of peace?

When you treat yourself right, you run better and more efficiently. Which means you don't have to go 100 miles an hour to get everything done.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

Peace, peace, peace. Peace is organized.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington.

Loneliness is failed solitude.