I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

If there's anything I can do, it's to present an alternative vision for the country.

How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.

Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

You don't want to get into doing the same thing, over and over again. I know I don't.

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.