I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

No Ordinary American Cares About Their Constitutional Rights

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.

If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30% chance we're going to get it wrong.

America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

...whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

At thirty either you are perfect or nothing.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.

The people do not complain because they have no voice; do not move because they are lethargic, and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen their hearts bleed.

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams.

It's just as evil to kill Vietnamese as it is to kill Americans.

We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.