The harder they hit, the more encouraged I get.

I think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we're good.

Any chance I get, I will dance.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.