“We need some structural mountains to move. We need the mountain of racism to move, the mountain of bigotry and hate to move.”

We need an economy that works for all, not just the few.

Young people have the power to change this country and the world.

If we’re going to achieve the change we need, we must elect strong progressives to Congress.

Many families are struggling, at least there will be direct payments for every working class adult and their children, and an extension of unemployment benefits.

When we stand together there is nothing, nothing, nothing we cannot accomplish.

This level of inequality is immoral and unsustainable.

Republicans didn’t care about the deficit when it came to tax breaks for billionaires. We cannot buy into their rhetoric about the deficit now.

Fashion? Let’s get to work.

The American people need a raise, and they need it now.

Americans’ right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts.

If we can afford war, we can afford to support children going hungry.

Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

Don’t let anybody fool you. The progressive movement today is winning.

The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a humanitarian disaster. Please wear a mask.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

There is no mountain I can’t climb. There’s no tower too high. No plane that I can’t learn how to fly.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.

Going to the mountains is going home.

We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.