If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

When you get ill do not get nervous about it and try as much as possible to be hopeful.

Pushing fifty is exercise enough.

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.

The measure of our intellectual capacity is the capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

The universe was born restless and has never since been still.

America doesn't have an abortion problem - it has an unwanted pregnancy problem, and an abortion symptom.

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them.

I operate my life like a startup. I learn a little bit and I test something else out and I keep iterating and iterating until it's perfect.

Don't stop setting your sights high because of some young guy.