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

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.

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.

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.

I’m alive, ” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.

God didn’t call you to be a failure. He called you to be a success

Life is the clay from which dreams are molded.

Oh to be in England Now that April's there.

Faith is a gift of God which man can neither give nor take away by promise of rewards or menaces of torture.

I shall never come personally to terms with the Christian lie.

In order to have bliss you have to be able to accept all the parts of the other, all the wildness and the darkness. You have to be able to hold on.

I haven't stopped writing which is good. I'm scared to stop completely otherwise it might lead to stagnancy.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.