Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

You bet being funny helps accomplish things. I've always maintained that people don't realize how many brain cells it takes to be funny. And politics ought to be fun -- after baseball it's our next favorite national pastime.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.