What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. Learn everything you can learn. Experience everything you can experience.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.