In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

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.

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

You just keep playing. If someone special comes along and organizes it in a new way, then you'll have another approach and everybody will jump on it to try to learn.

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know