Quotes

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.

You have mismanaged the world, and it shall be taken from you!

We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.