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" I spent eight years living without heat and hot water. "

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" I have never articulated a specific number, but I think a nation as great as we are, that professes to favor freedom and liberty, that we would find a way to evidence that in our criminal justice system by achieving what we know we can achieve: a reduction in crime, a reduction in taxpayer expense, and a reduction in the prison population. "

" 'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. "

" As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. "

" We should be ashamed of ourselves. We inherited the best infrastructure on the globe from our grandparents... and we've taken that inheritance and squandered it. "

" I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism. "

" I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am. "

" In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win. "

" Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation. "

" Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government. "

" Do not forget from whence you've come. "

" Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth. "

" Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so. "

" So many great movements didn't succeed the first time, but people kept trying and trying and trying. "

" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. "

" Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. "

" Government has got to open up and engage citizenry as partners. "

" If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. "

" Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just. "

" Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country. "

" Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. "

" The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country. "

" My simple point is that I judge a person's faith by how they live their life, not by the tenets of their religion. I've watched the holiest of people walk past somebody in need or treat their staff mean. To me, the beauty of faith is only seen when people live it consistently or struggle to do so. "

" Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be. "

" The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing. "

" We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states. "

" If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong. "

" What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing. "

" The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves. "

" Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day. "

" I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial. "