Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.

D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.

I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

It was all bad, very bad. And the worst of it was not that they had ceased waiting, but that they had ceased to have faith.

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died.

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn't do nothing.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.

At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it.

Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought.