I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and for ever.

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.

In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically.

Vampires are a genre now.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'

I'm just a good Catholic boy - I do naughty things and feel guilty about them.