"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

"I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."

"My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend."

"I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go."

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."