When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

It was not just inappropriate behavior

But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. Its not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.