I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

can you see how amazing the sun in Winter, like a miracle", i said. He looked at me and said "The sun is like miracle just in Winter and you are miracle in my life".

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.

To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.