A public option is essential to creating the cost-savings necessary to offset the cost of providing all Americans access to affordable health care.

Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.

If you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won't be any more available.

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

The United States has never been afraid of a challenge. In times of crisis, it is American innovation and ingenuity that has forged the path to progress and prosperity.

While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength.

My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives.

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

Go chase your dreams. Give it a try. And see how far you can go.

There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you?

There comes a time when you swim or sink so I jumped in the drink 'cause I couldn't make myself clear. Maybe I wrote in invisible ink, oh I've tried to think how I could've made it appear.

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

[Everybody Loves Somebody] was a different take on that immigrant sort of life.

There's nothing magic about spending on tanks and bombs rather than roads and bridges.

My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: "By their fruits shall ye know them."

I am inspired by the films of Pedro Almodóvar, as they are funny, sad, and extremely weird.