If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.

Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.

Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace.

Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.