“Life is very important to Americans.”

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.

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

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.

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.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it’s just a few idiots. Isn’t. It’s the country.

There is no such thing as a dumb question but there is such a thing as a dumb person asking a question.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

I want to be really, really clear about this. It doesn’t mean that everyone or even the majority of people who voted for Donald Trump are racist or white supremacists or anything like that. But what it means is that it’s not a mistake that Trump began his campaign with birthersism .

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it’s a family thing, and I guess it’s clean.

That was a foul, young lady. You know that was a foul. Don’t ask dumb questions.