That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

It is not patriotic to decide to destroy a new president who was duly elected by an overwhelming margin. It is un-patriotic to resolve to destroy that presidency.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

Congress has lost its way if we don't hold this President accountable for his actions.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

I'm proud to be a Democrat.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

We face many trials, beyond our human ability to endure. We learn to depend on only God’s grace.

In doing you're not, rather in your non-doing you really are!

Better to suffer than to die.

The most delightful advantage of being bald one can hear the snowflakes.

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

Inspiration has to be natural for me, not so considered, I am not saying that is right or wrong, it's simply what works for me.

The issue of power is not bound to power per se, but often depends on the people themselves, to what extent they unconsciously encourage this power and its structures.