There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

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.

It was not just inappropriate behavior

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