"

you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are why you're running for president and what will you ...more

"

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common...

"

America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they...more

"

We must have public officials who will stand up and tell the people exactly what they think... Our failure in recent years has not been the failure of...more

"

Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the Ame...more

"

quoting from Neil Kinnock, running against Thatcher in 1987:Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university? Why ...more

"

We all know - or at least we are told continuously - that we are a divided people. And we know there's a degree of truth in it. We have too often allo...more

"

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of li...more

"

Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings:How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my opinion, is by attempting to...more

"

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. I made a pledge...more

"

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 Hum...more

"

The conservatives could sneer about "social engineering" if they wanted, but I thought that most people believed as I did that government should embod...more

"

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.

"

the Democratic Party had failed (in 1983) 'to remember waht got us this far and how we got here -- moral indignation, decent instincts, a sense of sha...more

"

614246"... in an airport in '64, Goldwater said, 'Well, keep punching, Hubert' during a chance meeting there.By the end of 1977, it became increasingl...more