The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
I think politicians really go with the tide.
I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
I'm a Southerner.