I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture.

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.