Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they’re getting their money back. So it isn’t selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

I think we’re rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

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

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there’s enough waste and inefficiency.

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

A nation can’t get strong on political pablum.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don’t really mean our immigration law.

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.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you’ve got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

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