For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. For too long as a nation, we have been lulled by the anthem of self-interest. For a decade, led by Ronald...

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

candor.

We are willing to vote 10 minutes after we get back in session if in fact they provide the information — information that Mr. Bolton’s staff had access to that they will not give to...

You not only have a right to choose what you will answer and not answer, but in my view, you should not answer.

I think if I had this evidence before a jury, I could get a conviction,

you should not run for president because tactically you can win. The questions you have to ask are why you’re running for president and what will you do when you are president. You shouldn’t run...

That’s good to know.

In my view, the public is served best by questions that initiate a dialogue with the nominee, not about how she will decide any specific case that may come before her, but about the spirit...

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

He wanted me to understand two big things: First, that nobody, no group, is above others. Public servants are obliged to level with everybody, whether or not they’ll like what he has to say. And...

Just talk to me as a father ‘¦ not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

This place just loves contrition, … We all make mistakes.

By the end of ’06 we’re going to have a pretty clear picture of whether or not it’s succeeding or failing, … And success will be dependent upon a government that’s representative and a capacity...

[After Roberts explained his views on privacy and his legal philosophy, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said,] You’ve told me nothing, Judge. … we are rolling the dice with you.

continue to mislead the American people about the state of affairs. And it’s incredibly, incredibly, incredibly dangerous.

614246″… in an airport in ’64, Goldwater said, ‘Well, keep punching, Hubert’ during a chance meeting there.By the end of 1977, it became increasingly clear that the Boss (Hubert Humphrey) would not be around much...

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

He’s filibustering, senator. But okay, go ahead,

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn’t mean I could speak for all young people.

… We’re either going to share the cost with everyone, including the wealthiest among us by foregoing the tax cuts for the wealthiest, or we’re going to put all the burden on the middle class…....

still paying an awesome price for the initial failures on policy and refusal to change them of this administration, of going in with too little power and too little legitimacy.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it’s not about the solvency of Social Security.

the number of Iraqis prepared to take on the insurgency is somewhere between 4,000 and 18,000.

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...