“We need elected leaders who are going to stand for what is morally right.”

I think the issue of income and wealth inequality is in fact a moral issue.

Let’s continue the political revolution and expand our movement by electing strong progressive candidates across the country.

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

Pathetic is too mild a word.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Congress must not leave for the Christmas holiday until we protect working people.

The election is not just about the future of our country – it is about the future of our planet.

Republican leadership has endless amounts of money for bloated military budgets and tax breaks for billionaires. But when working families need help, oh my God, we can’t afford it!

We simply cannot re-elect a president who does not believe in the rule of law and our constitution.

Real freedom must include economic security.

The Republicans handing over a crippling economy to the Democrats and immediately blaming them for it will never get old.

At a time when we are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, Congress must do more

No Legal Immunity for Corporations That Break The Law.

You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.

This is not a time to take our foot off the gas pedal. If we rally the American people, we can get a hell of a lot done.

The change we need will not happen tomorrow. But it is important that we maintain our vision and continue to fight.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I’m an only child, and I could count on my mother’s vote.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.

Presidents are selected, not elected.

We’re going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it’s time for you to get out of the way.