Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Im sick and tired of old men sitting around in air conditioned rooms here in Washington, dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper.

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.

It's possible to dazzle a crowd if you really work at it. But that is no qualification for leadership. Hitler was a master of crowds.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood.

There's isn't any slight of hand in Spirituality, everything you desire is right there for you to see.

Everyone can dream and as impossible as it may look and sound, this kind of thinking and attitude is what will keep us going.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing

... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

I drink too much coffee.

Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.