The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

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.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

You could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live.

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

I keep calling it the I-thought. It's a thought. There is no I. This gives you a clue.

Being a producer and a star of the play was a lot more challenging and difficult than I ever anticipated, but so rewarding. I got to be involved with the writing, the casting.