Our timing is right... The election results are still fresh in the minds of my Republican colleagues and they don't want to go through this again.

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

We will have health care reform in America.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.

You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

Provide more service than what you get paid for

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.