You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

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.

In the end, what will you fight for-- what got there first, what got there last or what has been there all along?

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places.

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to 'but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.