Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents. We've got to send messages to our kids about what is important.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.