My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

The stories people tell you about themselves seem to retain the possibility of being false. But what you discover about them by yourself seems to be the truth.

Love like the morning sun

You’re not born with confidence

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

You have to engage with people who are different from you and try to work with their thinking and their mind. That's a real challenge.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.