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

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.

Democrats have power, we have to be bold in a way we have not seen since FDR in the 1930s.

We need progressive leaders everywhere who will reform our broken and racist criminal justice system.

The price of failure is just too great to imagine.

We must reduce the military budget by 10% and use that $74 billion in savings to invest in our people.

A lot of powerful people and corporations are counting on you to not make your voice heard. Do not give them that satisfaction.

It is a moral outrage that the richest family in America pays workers at Walmart starvation wages.

I have spent the better part of my adult life standing up and fighting for working families.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I think the immediate thing is we stand up to protect those people who are in trouble.

Young People Can Swing the Election.

Congress must move forward vigorously and help the American people.

The Republicans must get their act together and protect working families.

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.

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

I always take the audience into account.