A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

Truth is, we don’t get grace. But it sure can get us.

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

Mind is the great lever of all things.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

To come to Christ costs you nothing, to follow Christ costs you something, to serve Christ will cost you everything.

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.