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.

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.

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

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

Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

Your mind may not know what to do today, but your heart does. Follow your heart.

When thoughts come, you can invite them in but don't serve them tea.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I washed mud off of mud.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.