There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.

Now we are raising the debt limit 3 times, up to $8 trillion, so that our children and our grandchildren will have to pay for the cost of our expenditures.

At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university's board of trustees for more than three decades.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy.

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

We need to have Bill Cosby month in Philadelphia.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Once you chose the power of love, nothing is impossible.

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

I design for the working girl.

Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound.

Reconciliation always brings a springtime to the soul.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

Every relationship is a gift exchange.

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.