Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.