We all know – or at least we are told continuously – that we are a divided people. And we know there’s a degree of truth in it. We have too often allowed our differences...

Whether we will have ever increasing protections for human liberty and dignity, or whether those protections will be diminished.

I’d expect the administration to detail what they think they’ve achieved, where they think they’ve fallen short, why they’ve fallen short and what help they need to, in fact, gain the initiative,

Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.

I wasn’t built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

Specifically, … the administration should develop with Congress clear benchmarks or goals in key areas: security, governance and politics, reconstruction and burden-sharing. We in Congress should aggressively assert our oversight responsibility by insisting that the...

less concerned about an outbreak of civil war than I am about the outbreak of civil chaos.

I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights...

If it succeeds, the political process, I predict you’ll see a drawdown of American forces by this time next year.

Because our military power dwarfs that of other countries – we spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined – this Administration believes that alliances and international institutions are more of a...

We all have a right to know where she stands on these basic issues. And I hope this puts to bed this notion that it’s not a legitimate thing for the United States Congress to...

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. … It freed my soul.

We’re rolling the dice with you, judge, … Talk to me as a father.

His answers are misleading,

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we’ve had probably in American history. The idea he doesn’t realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of...

It’s like pitching to Ken Griffey.

and then you’re going to see them draw down again.

The senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it’s a pretty good detour. Hubert Humphrey, as quoted by Biden, p. 134

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are...

While Kentucky Republicans are mired deeper in the Fletcher … job scandals, Kentucky Democrats are on the rebound. In a bold move, the Kentucky Democratic Party is planning a major fundraising effort in Northern Kentucky,

The original power given to them was assuming that it would be used with discretion, … Thirty thousand seems like an awful, awful stretch to me.

the Democratic Party had failed (in 1983) ‘to remember waht got us this far and how we got here — moral indignation, decent instincts, a sense of shared sacrifice and mutual responsibility, and a set...

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause...

Go ahead and continue not to answer, … His answers are misleading, with all due respect.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil...

When we were in the Balkans, we, in fact, dealt with the Croats as well as the Serbs according to the Dayton accords…

In Afghanistan, the war was prosecuted exceptionally well, but the follow-through commitment to Afghanistan’s security and reconstruction has, in my judgment, fallen short, … It would be a tragedy if we removed a tyrant in...

Not one single, solitary Iraqi policeman has completed the 24-week training course on the ground,

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common…

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

I do not understand the lack of a sense of urgency.

I think we have a six-month window here to get it right. But I have to admit that I think the chances are not a lot better than 50-50.

Robert Bork, at opening of Judiciary hearings:How should a judge go about finding the law? The only legitimate way, in my opinion, is by attempting to discern what those who made the law intended…As I...

But you’re going from the…

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to...

The collective bargaining process worked and, thankfully, Congress did not need to act to impose a testing program on professional sports leagues, … This is a great day for baseball. I hope that this will...

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

The single most important thing we have to be doing now is make sure that training is on target and that they have the capacity to govern.

My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn’t how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up. I made a pledge to myself...

We have two national emergencies, … One relates to our interest in Iraq and the other in the Gulf, and I don’t think you can take from one to deal with the other.

If the Sunnis don’t buy into this constitution over the next two months by voting for Sunnis in the parliament and trying to get the constitution amended, we may find a regional war, not just...

There is no basic security … It is bizarre! Absolutely bizarre!

America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which they fully expected their offspring to fulfill. So the words...

If this hole he’s dug us in Iraq is not filled in by him relatively shortly, we’re going to inherit the whirlwind for a generation. This is going to end up in a civil war...

That’s what I want to know about, because without any knowledge of your understanding of the law, because you will not share it with us, we are rolling the dice with you, Judge.

We are rolling the dice with you, judge,

… Judge, she (Ginsburg) specifically, in response to a question whether or not she agreed with the majority or minority opinion in Moore v. the City of Cleveland said explicitly: I agree with the majority,...

I can’t think of a single incidence … where anything has moved positively in the Balkans without a show of force and resolve,