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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Money cannot eradicate poverty, only education can.

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.

Hey Jake. I got an idea.''Be gentle with it, ' the Doc grinned. 'It's in a strange place.

Giving saves lives. Especially the giver’s.

After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

Those of us who do not live forever do not like change perhaps as much as those of you who do.

Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

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