But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

The fight for sanity in our gun safety laws is not by any means over. In many ways it's just beginning.

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform.

It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone’s name would be in history books.

It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.

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To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.