You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

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

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.

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.

We believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need.

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak, are left behind by the side of the trail. The strong, the strong they tell us, will inherit the land. We Democrats believe in something else. We Democrats believe that we can make it all the way with the whole family intact, and we have more than once.