The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.
We make our own future; we govern ourselves, and to govern is to choose.
God doesn't make mistakes and has made each of us in his own image. God is simply love. There should be no fear in love.
There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
We must preserve our planet and grow our economy simultaneously. We cannot become more prosperous without the living systems upon which our prosperity depends.
We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.
The march of progress must continue.
History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.
If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.
You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.
We have to raise the minimum wage.
Typically, I don't get to unwind after a day at work.
Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.
Public trust is essential to public safety.
While different states and cities might look to different strategies for protecting public safety, we all can agree on this: we lose too many American lives to gun violence.
We have concentrated wealth and capital to such a degree that the vast majority of us don't have the discretionary dollars to make our economy go and grow.
Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.
If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.
