Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

Everybody is a football senator for a while, but it is a much shorter season and there are not that many teams that are on top, and baseball is just built into the American psyche.

There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years, and he could have it earlier.

We will push through health care reform regardless of the views of the American people.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.

One year after the United States led the invasion of Iraq, the country remains extremely dangerous not only to our troops, but also to the stability of the world.

Iran is nothing but trouble, and always has been that.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

We just have to be ourselves.

My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh.

I would be quite happy never to play any of my better-known songs again. But unless you're Dylan, you can't afford to completely disregard what your audience wants.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.