When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

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.

I have the curse of thinking funny!

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

When it comes to music, I'm definitely thinking [about] what I would like to hear.

Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90's

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'