Progressive leaders always try to take action on the forward edge of that movement, movement toward greater respect for the equal rights of all.

You can't forge a new sort of consensus, you can't forge public opinion, by following public opinion.

I believe that the best way to campaign is one-on-one with people.

We have to wrap this imperative of addressing climate change in a prosperity framework, and secondly we have to do a much better job of putting forward an American jobs agenda that's a match for the climate challenge.

If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. They are unheard. They are told they are unneeded by this economy. And that extreme poverty breeds conditions for extreme violence.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

Senator Mikulski has done an outstanding job representing Maryland in the U.S. Senate for nearly 30 years.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

When I was in Grade 9, there was an election for high school president, and one of the candidates told us that if we elected him, he would abolish homework. He promised this to the entire student body from the stage in the school gymnasium.

The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.

When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and one in five was black - some were free, some slaves.

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.

Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully participate, pay their taxes, play by the rules and take care of their families. That's the inclusive America that I believe all of us want to move to.

Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.

I think former President Clinton and even Newt Gingrich have said it was a mistake to repeal Glass Steagall.

The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'

Some people see Baltimore as a hopeless place. Some have even made a lot of money on it.

Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results.

Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.