I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

I wasn't built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people’s happiness suffocate.

It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.

Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.

All these toys were never intended to possess my heart. My true good is in another world, and my only real treasure is Christ.

I was better at baseball, but I really loved football.

One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

When you walk in a saree, you must kick the pleats. It becomes more comfortable that way.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.