I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

Patriotism is a love of country. If you love your country, you should love your countrymen and women. It doesn't mean you always agree with them or even like them. It is understanding that we have interwoven destiny.

May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.

The fact that Newark is having poetry festivals and peace conferences - all of these things are building an undeniable thesis that our city is making incredible strides forward.

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Life is about, every single day, getting up to manifest your truth.

You have to understand the Newark Riots - a lot of people understand that the pain was the initial explosion of anger and alienation, but after that, the response, sending the National Guard troops - a lot of violence was carried out and perpetrated by those who were allegedly coming here to protect residents.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Friends are born, not made.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.

We had incense and rock'n'roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.