I don't think you earn the right to a message until you've earned it by having a real fight, really being willing to stand up for what you believe in.

I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.

We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.

Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear.

Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war chest and what your election outcome was going to be.

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.

Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.

We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.

Only love can inspire us to sacrifice.

The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'

Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart.

I am a very selfish person.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.