For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.

I wont stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.

I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight. But we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Yeah, because when you’re attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you don’t act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.

Dissembling is a common tool of the anger junkie.

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

I think our animals are angels, earth-angels, pointing out for us the steadfast path of love, loyalty, optimism, faith, joy, hope. They teach us everything important about life.

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.