The hope is what America represents to the world and has always represented - the hope for a better life and a better world. We have a duty to protect and support that hope with not just our words, but with our deeds.

I was in a cult for thirty-four years. Everyone else could see it. I don’t know why I couldn’t.

The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

Right after we invaded Iraq, I put a sign on my lawn that said "War is not the answer." That sign was either defaced, ripped up, or stolen every week. I had to replace that sign twelve times.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.