I beat a brain tumor.

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

There's nothing more important than our good health - that's our principal capital asset.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

I don't like labels. I think they conceal more than they reveal, sort of like a bikini.

I knew people were going to see me see deteriorate before their eyes.

The point of art is to inspire you to create your own.

Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

I believe the US is a truly monstrous force in the world, now off the leash for obvious reasons.

Soon evening worked its way into the sky, and the city hunched itself down.

At home I drive an old Land Rover.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

The past doesn't just disappear after it's happened.