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Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.

I think what's great about your community is that it's different than anyone else's. Look around. What do you want to change? What needs to be built, or what's valuable and needs to be maintained? Is it the people? Local animals? Your parks or gardens? Hospitals?

Special interests and opponents have figured out how easy it is to disrupt town halls and get their own message out. The days of the truly free-form town halls may be over.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

On the set of 'Community,' we quote 'Community' to each other. We're a lost cause. We're like a bunch of little kids running around and yelling things.

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.