Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government.

And I thought my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money.

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.

How will I ever learn to forget what I can no longer delete?

That's the thing about digging holes, ” Quinn said. “There are no assurances you'll find what you want—or want what you find.

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The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

My mother always told me that as you go through life, no matter what you do, or how you do it, you leave a little footprint, and that's your legacy.

The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.

I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.