It has become clear that the function of a private health insurance is to make as much money as possible. Every dollar not paid out in claims is another dollar made in profits for the company.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

It's better to show up than to give up.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sin

Everything built with an art, May your eyes couldn't see it, but digital eye can.

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

I don't think any of us really knows why we're here. But I think we're supposed to believe we're here for a purpose.

The secret of endurance is to remember that your pain is temporary but your reward will be eternal.