“The overwhelming majority of the American people understand that we must end starvation wages in America.”

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.

Your vote will decide which party controls the United States Senate and the direction of our country.

We cannot re-elect a president who does not believe in democracy.

Change happens when young people pick up the torch and say “we’re going to change the world.”

Guaranteeing health care as a right isn’t radical. It’s what every other major country already does.

We need to change the power structure in America, we need to end the political oligarchy.

Unprecedented crises demand unprecedented action.

It’s not too late to get out and vote or bring someone to the polls!

The election is not just about the economy, climate change, education and health care. This is about whether we retain American democracy.

I don’t represent large corporations and I don’t want their money.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

When we say we have a rigged economy, that means billionaires getting richer during a pandemic while millions of people lose their jobs every week.

This is not just an election on the issues. This is an election on the future of American democracy.

If you can’t afford to take care of your veterans , then don’t go to war.

We need a government that stands up for working people. That is what we promised to deliver and that is what we must do.

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

In the city that the wolf enters, enemies will be close by. An alien force will sack a great country. Allies will cross the mountains and the borders.

Today, now, it is time to move forward, a time to look for what is good in others, what is good in our country. It is time to see what we have in common, what we have to share as human beings and citizens.

The food I’ve liked in my time is American country cookin’.

The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.

The fatherland shall one day be like this: We’re not all equal, but we’re all brothers.

The measure of a country’s greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis.