I was not an activist.

Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card.

We are Boston. We are America. We respond. We endure. We overcome. And we own the finish line.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

A man I'm proud to call my friend. A man who will be the next President of the United States — Barack America!

I exaggerate when I’m angry, but I’ve never gone around telling people things that aren’t true about me.

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.