"Presidential leadership is best evaluated not on the basis of one's agreement with the policies, but on their effectiveness in using their powers to transform the nation and our understanding of ourselves."

“You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.”

“The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr

“From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep it.”

“I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.”

Source : "Do Tell: Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the Funny Senator". Interview with Mary Ann Akers, voices.washingtonpost.com. June 8, 2007.

“When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good.”

“Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.”

“I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.”