“This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.”

I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women’s access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever.

My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.

We don’t win what we don’t fight for.

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.

That’s how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that’s already crushing our young people.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.

Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.

There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn’t know how to throw a punch.

Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.

Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.

I love the work I do.

Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what’s wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

The problem with this country is that you meet your soulmate after getting married.

I’m not a country star, ima rockstar.

Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil which is essentially undemocratic.