I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.

I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

Okay, guys. Stop it. Are you going to start peeing on me to mark your territory?

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain.

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.