"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
"Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word."
"The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all."
"There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."
"You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country."
"He's a million rubber bands in his resilience."
"An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style."
"He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president."
"I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue."
"Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system."
"If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast."
"Rather than serving in the U.S. Senate for almost 20 years or having so many other wonderful life experiences, I could have served a longer sentence in prison for some of the stupid, reckless things I did as a teenager."
"Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo."
"When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course."
"The person you are at 13 or 17 is not the person you are at 30, 40, or 50. Everyone old enough to look back on his or her teenage years knows this."
"As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review - and overturn - the ban on gay service in the military. I voted for 'don't ask, don't tell.' But much has changed since 1993. My thinking shifted when I read that the military was firing translators because they are gay."
"In World War II, a British mathematician named Alan Turing led the effort to crack the Nazis' communication code. He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science. Does it matter that Turing was gay?"
"Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that 'gay' is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person."
"Let us end 'don't ask, don't tell.'"
"Before holding elective office - 12 years in the Wyoming House of Representatives and 18 years in the U.S. Senate - I served a different type of time. I was on probation for a federal offense committed as a teenager."
"I am living proof that youth possess a unique capacity to grow and change - that the child who seems hopeless today could go on to change the world."
"It was not until my 20s that I began to creep toward maturity."
"My parole officer always believed in my capacity for redemption, even when my actions did not inspire confidence."
"The Republican Party I represented proudly for 18 years did not shy away from taking on special-interest money when it conflicted with constituents' needs."
"America's Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard."
