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

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.

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.

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.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.

No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.

They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

Now the United States has to ensure that Afghanistan does not immediately collapse after being left to itself in 2014.

In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it’s so unimaginably immediate.

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother,