You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

There's no such word as genius, it just the combination of hard work and determination.

An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

With Carmina Burana, my collected works begin.

I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

A run has never returned me exactly the same. I go, I grow.

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

No matter how qualified you are, you won't reach a better life until you imagine it.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.