The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.