“The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.”

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, ‘I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.’ I’m not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and…evil.

I lost in ’96, in case the word hadn’t trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

Elizabeth’s back at the Red Cross, and I’m walking the dog.

I don’t know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood.

This is not a coincidence. This is not a coincidence. And with all due respect, I am here to tell you it does not take a village to raise a child. It takes a family to raise a child.

For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain … looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

If you’re hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You’ll get the same kind of feeling and you won’t have to pay.

If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

Life is very important to Americans.

I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home.

I used to think that seniority was a terrible thing when I didn’t have any.

Life is hard and astonishingly complicated…. No one great reform will make it easy.

I get up at 5 A.M., and I train hard. I’ve got two young children, so I have to get up early. But I like it.

It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.

Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.