The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true.

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.

Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Delay is the enemy of progress.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.