What we need to do is to stand up to the big money interests, and the campaign contributors. When we do that, we can, in fact, transform America.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

It's better to show up than to give up.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.

Magic isn’t a far-off phenomenon.

Never read a book to finish it, read to consume it.

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.

Dream it. Dare it. Do it.

Man's attitude towards the universe and his opinion of the universe predates the scientific probe of the universe.

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.