There are conspiracies all over the Senate floor on any day!

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.

There are people that are to champion the campaign and advocacy against the cycle of ungodliness and injustice in every nation.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf see and be blind.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.

I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.

When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

I've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.