The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

If you choose the lesser of two evils, you are still choosing evil.

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions it can start as a contributor to the community.

That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.