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

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 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 Cupid misses the heart, he touches the body fatally. (Si Cupidon rate le cœur, - Il touche mortellement le corps)

If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.

Cheney, Rumsfeld - they were Shakespearean in their attitude of impunity.

I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Most Jews do not like to admit it, but our god is Lucifer... and we are his chosen people.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.

I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.