The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
There is no reason for a civilian to have an automatic weapon.
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.
I think that when we have a better educated society, when there is less violence in our cities, when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want, we aspire to.
Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
We need to ban assault weapons. We need to ban the high-capacity clips and magazines. We need serious background information, system upgrade.
Take your patience pill. . . You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.
I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.
Every rep that you take off, somebody else gets another look. That's just how I am. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's a matter of being confident and not taking anything for granted.
Getting this caliber of musicians together [for "90 Millas" CD in September of 2007] is almost impossible to do again.
Love is insistent on its own continuation. Every fraction of a second, someone somewhere falls in love, a former enemy becomes a friend, and a newborn baby is born into the world.