We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It’s a joke. It doesn’t enforce the law.

It is not undignified to ask the nominee questions he would rather not answer, should he prefer to remain inscrutable or, worse yet, all things to all people.

The president is not telling us the time frame … what’s happening is that the American public is despairing of the situation,

We have to get it right but not find an excuse to act at all.

Well, my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don’t have anything to do with health care.

Rather than continuing with a media blitz that tries to repackage a ‘stay the course’ strategy that isn’t working, the president and his administration should give the public a plan, with a timetable, to complete...

Some have called for a dignified process. So have I. But at times, it sounds like what some really want for the nominee is an easy process,

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should...

Unfortunately, the information available to me about this matter comes from press reports and public statements rather than from the administration directly,

The right thing for the United States right now is to refocus on the fight against terrorism,

I cannot support an Iraq policy that makes our enemies stronger and our own country weaker, and that is why I will not support staying the course the President has set,

I don’t want to hear again from the attorney general or anyone on this floor that this government has shown it can be trusted to use the power we give it with restraint and care.

This proposal is unacceptable. The administration has been talking about war in Iraq for quite some time now. Surely they had the time to draft a more careful, thoughtful proposal than the irresponsibly broad and...

Without any sort of a time frame in place, we’ll never even get to that point, … Meet the Press.

The American people deserve a clear plan for concluding our military mission. And the Iraqi people need to know without any doubt that we do not intend to stay in that country indefinitely.

He’s got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, … I’m not hearing the same things at the briefings that I’m...

He is the president, not a king.

It’s one of the things I’m most certain of in my 23 years as a public official and after over 900 listening sessions or town meetings over 13 years, … This is one of the...

I believe in local control of education.

This amendment raises the very distinct prospect, which I believe all of us fear, that the entire effort will fall if the U.S. Supreme Court finds one defect, this is a critical amendment in that...

The few minor changes that the White House agreed to do not address the major problems with the Patriot Act that a bipartisan coalition has been trying to fix for the past several years. We’ve...

How much longer can the elected representatives of the American people in this Congress allow the President to rack up over a billion dollars a week in new debts? This war is draining, by one...

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Those remarks were constructive, and we need to be having this discussion here at home. I am putting a vision of when this ends on the table in the hope that we can get the...

to give the American people a realistic assessment of where we stand today, and where we should be going.

The appointment of a chief justice is the ultimate level of scrutiny. So it raises the stakes. Obviously, Roberts has many qualifications as a jurist, but the issues for this country are so intense when...

Senator Proxmire leaves behind an unparalleled legacy as a defender of the American taxpayer and one of the hardest working senators in U.S. history.

This will allow more time to finally agree on a bill that protects our rights and freedoms while preserving important tools for fighting terrorism.

This has not been an easy decision but I think it is the correct one.

Money in politics is a huge issue.

I think there is an orderly and dignified way to find out what happened. And, if there was a legal violation there needs to be accountability … you can’t put the cart before the horse,...

Last week the president of the United States gave his State of the Union address, where he spoke of America’s leadership in the world, and called on all of us to ‘lead this world toward...

We are not interested in reshaping or reforming soft money. We’re interested in getting rid of it,

When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called ‘independent ads.’ Same thing for unions.

Now we can take this legislation to the floor and have a real vote on reform, without constitutional arguments to hide behind,

What is the plan ?

Now you are talking about an extremely rushed process for chief justice and I’m not at all sure that can be done within that time period. I will not take steps to purposely delay it....

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

He does not have a sufficiently strong dedication to civil rights law that I believe a judge on this circuit court must have.

I think [Bush] probably broke the law here, but we need to know why they did it this way and what the legal justifications were, and then we need to determine what kind of accountability...

Judge Roberts’ impeccable legal credentials, his reputation and record as a fair-minded person, and his commitment to modesty and respect for precedent have persuaded me that he will not bring an ideological agenda.

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: ‘I’d like for somebody to yell at you a bit.’

The minor good news is that Democrats are finding their voice and they’ve broken the taboo against talking about the war.

I think we have to at least openly consider at what point we can bring our troops home or, at least, to begin to bring our troops home. Not only from the point of view...

As with the Bosnia mission, there is no clear set of goals, beyond maintaining a currently nonexistent peace. There is no timetable with withdrawal, no cost assessment, no exit strategy.

I’m proud to be a Democrat.

Look, when you’re going to take $500 million out of the system in one cycle, it is going to cause some anxiety, … Face the Nation.

I obviously agree Katrina has to be our top priority at the moment, … we need to figure out a way to have sustained attention to (Iraq), particularly among Democrats. The situation looks worse and...

I think it would be useful for us to have a sense who that other justice may be. Because it obviously has to do with the composition and balance of the court.

I’ve been outspent by my opponents every time I’ve run for U.S. Senate.