"When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience."

"It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law."

"It's time to look beyond the budget ax to assure access to health care for all. It's time to look for bipartisan solutions to the problems we can tackle today, and to work together for tomorrow - building a health care system that works for all Americans."

"If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else."

"You do the work and you want people to see it but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way."

"If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel."

"Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business."

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."