Peace is a condition of the heart. It's a state of mind, of tranquility, of calmness, and of centeredness. It's an understanding of the reciprocal nature of love, a presence, a journey. It's all of our aspirations. Peace is not a luxury or merely the absence of war, it's a kind of grace - which we're all entitled to as people who are alive. Peace is an active presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

I think there are people in this Congress who actually believe that government does not have a benign role in the lives of the people, except as an engine to redistribute the wealth of the Nation upwards.

First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Lies are weapons of mass destruction.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

America as a nation cannot walk in faith and fear at the same time.