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

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.

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.

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

The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.

The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change.

I honestly didn’t realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it’s true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

Invest in yourself. your career is the engine of your wealth.

I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

We need to remind ourselves that contemporary art is first of all a form of conceptual gymnastics, in which we learn to coexist with what we don't understand.

Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy.

I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.