Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn’t frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place.

Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I know how to take good ideas and turn them into sensible law at great odds.

The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.