I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I don't believe that the fight for trans rights or African American rights is different from the fight against war, or the fight for refugees.

After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.

In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a lot of people who don't have anything. The less inequality you have in a society, the more social peace you have. It's kind of a no-brainer.

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young, poor-class child from the provinces could go to the center of the country: through baseball, which was my dream.