But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Most evil in the world is only partly because of an evil person. Most of it is because of the complicity of bystanders.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

No couples in Virginia can adopt other than a married couple - that's the right policy.

We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.

Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

I think if you run away from who you are, that you're a Democrat and you're proud to be a Democrat, it's foolish. And the reason it's foolish is you've got a lot to be proud of.

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

[On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.

There is only one race, the human race.