My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

I trust no one, not even myself.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.

We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally non-violent struggle for justice.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on a proposal that will revolutionize higher education in America.

Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.

If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment to think about the Supreme Court justices that Donald Trump would nominate and what that would mean to civil liberties, equal rights, and the future of our country.

I see a future where getting to work or to school or to the store does not have to cause pollution.

Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.

What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.

Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.

Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.

Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

When I talk about democratic socialist, I am talking about Medicare, a single payer health care system for the elderly. And in my view, we should expand that concept to all people. I believe that everybody in this country should be entitled to health care as a right.

The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a 'moral' objection to it.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.