“We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leaders...”

“While the notion that torture works has been glorified in television shows and movies, the simple truth is this: torture has never been an effective interrogation method.”

“The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.”

“It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.”

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living ins...”

“Does truth have a moral?”

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”

“You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.”

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”

“Politics divides a nation, instead of bringing its people together.”

“Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.”

“A hand fought best when it made a fist.”