Think higher, feel deeper.
It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.
A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.
In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.
My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!
The public has moved beyond politicians. For example, I'm not worried about them repealing protections for the LGBT community, because the public is beyond that. I'm not worried about them being able to change the way in which we have reached out and provided many more opportunities for women. And I - but here's what does concern me. What concerns me is that they will make some judgments in the foreign policy area, without having thought it through that may cause a lot of problems.
Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a big issue. It's about youth and youth culture. There's no other art form that I know that requires you to be a certain age.
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.
The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.