If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.

All Life needs for life is possible to will.

Skeet shooting is probably more satisfying if you really hate skeets.

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

There is new hope among people that this dispensation can fulfill their aspirations.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

I'd been in love before - I was always in love.

Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it's constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.