Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

What I look for in a guy is passion and ambition and there's nothing sexier than intellect, so hopefully that would be reciprocated.

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.