If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Work is not about survival alone

That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.

My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

Liberals have always opposed the concept of an independent nuclear deterrent.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

Iran is the middle child of the Axis of Evil. Iraq is the oldest child and gets the lion's share of the attention, and North Korea is the crazy baby.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.