“The worst thing that can happen in a democracy – as well as in an individual’s life – is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.”

I’m undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

Hard men present hard choices – none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

Motown, Motown, that’s my era. Those are my people.

I respect the Congress’s oversight responsibility.

I sometimes think that I didn’t leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don’t want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

I’ve had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there’s something wrong with that. There’s something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.

You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

I’ve been really at the highest levels of American political life. Hillary Clinton

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

You want to spend your millions on a worthless cause? Try donating it to the Democrats.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it’s a constitution that’s the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it’s the most generous nation in the world.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.

I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, “we’ve never had a democrat in the family before”.