When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

We don't win what we don't fight for.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

Fathom the destiny that, does not just lay before you - but, awaits you.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

It is what people actually did in the stock market that counted - not what they said they were going to do.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

You don't really know a song until you play it live.

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

In lantern-light My yellow Chrysanthemums Lost all their color