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"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

"Never give up on anybody."

"The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy."

"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."

"Underneath the beautiful exterior there was an element of ruthlessness and toughness that I had trouble either accepting or forgetting."

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."

"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."

"I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university."

"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."

"Never give in and never give up."

"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."

"Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy."

"We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics."

"I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college."

"Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new."

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

"I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."

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