We should vigorously debate policy differences. We have too much all-or-nothing in American politics.

D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.

I think I'm one of five people in the Senate who's never been a politician before. And now that I am a politician, what I find weird about it is that I respect myself less.

What happens in Senate fight club stays in Senate fight club.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

We're not at war with all Muslims, we're at war with a subset of Islam that believes in killing in the name of religion, as jihadis do.

Let's be clear: Has the U.S. ever made any mistakes? Of course.Is the U.S. at all like [Vladimir] Putin's regime? Not at all.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of the free press. The U.S. celebrates free press.

[Vladimir] Putin is an enemy of political dissent. The U.S. celebrates political dissent and the right for people to argue free from violence about places where our ideas are in conflict.

The U.S. affirms freedom of speech.[Vladimir] Putin is no friend of freedom of speech.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

If the Palestinians do their part, we shall do our part and we shall have an agreement.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.

Aikido is love. It is the path that brings our heart into oneness with the spirit of the universe to complete our mission in life by instilling in us a love and reverence for all of nature.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.