When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

The universe is so big, there's so many worlds, there must be one of them or more, something that's alive.

I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.

Justin Bieber is like the white Tupac. Compared to a lot of people.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

The guys on the ground are the guys I care about. I've had the most satisfaction telling their stories. But when you're in combat with somebody, yes, a bond does grow.

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

There's you. There's me. We love each other, and we have since we were kids, so we should be together. The end.

In the world I live in, 'not worse' is nearly as good as 'better'.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.