“Too many of us still believe our differences define us.”

“We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.”

“There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.”

“Sensible people have got to work together.”

“We must be headlights and not taillights.”

“Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.”

“Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.”

“So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.”