Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a husband who says, I met my wife. I have to tell you, I caused a few divorces too.

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.

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

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.

If you ever want to remember anything, tell it to a child.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

lifelong enemies are, I think, as hard to make and as important to one's well-being as lifelong friends.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

The damage that we do in the service of whatever motivates us in life has a direct effect, mostly on our kids.

It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.