Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

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...

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.

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

If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.

Grace rides inside the waves.

I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy.

Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

Problems between countries always exist, especially between such big countries as Russia and the United States. There have always been some issues, but I don't think we should go to extremes.