My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

When we walk in the sunour shadows are like barges of silence.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

You already have everything to be the best you can be inside of you. What are you waiting for to use it?

But how could anyone be grateful for what they have if they didn’t know what it was like not to have what they need?

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

I believe that the kids, young people should have an opportunity to have Oscar nominated actors in their movies too.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.