"Be infinitely flexible and constantly amazed."

“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”

“Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!”

“When I had no shoes I was comfortable - I used to run barefoot. When I wore shoes it was difficult. To run in shoes was ok, but at the beginning of my career it was hard.”

“As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.”

“Disease does not recognize congressional districts or party affiliation.”

Source : "Kagen Introduces Bill To Save Wisconsin Family Medical Training". Public Statements, Project Vote Smart, June 27, 2007.

“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”

“Liberalism is essentially the belief that there can be a reconciliation of all difficulties and differences, and since there can't, it is a misleading way to approach politics.”

Source : "Singular Encounters" by Naim Attallah, Quartet Books, (p. 136), 1990.

“Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.