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

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another.

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.

If you can't fill the till, then don't pass the bill.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Most people assume that physician language is akin to technical, non-understandable jargon. It does not have to be that way. Doctors do not perform witchcraft. They simply interpret what they are told and what tests reveal. They diagnose and prescribe treatment. Our responsibility is to help doctors know what is going on in our bodies and to insist on clear, precise, understandable language in response.