“I want to attract the best people into teaching.”

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

If you have a sharp bold economic message, you can unite everybody.

We’re going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We’re going to beat guns into submission!

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

When you lose an election, you don’t blink, you don’t turn away. You look it right in the eye and say, why did we lose?

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people’s rights away.

I think there’s going to be a lot of Americans who are really willing to be much more active than they were before, because they’re worried about where Trump is headed.

Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.

I made education the highest priority of my campaign – actually education and jobs – and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

I’m still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people’s lives better.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

When a nominee doesn’t get 60 votes, you shouldn’t change the rules, you should change the nominee.

The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there’s another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Believe the best of everybody.