Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

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.

Sometimes people get taken away from you whether you want it or not. And sometimes that hurts so much, it might be easier to forget.

You know, " I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here, " he said.

I tried to find something I already knew about life that might help me reach out and touch my brother and get him to look at me and himself.

I don't have weird talents I'm just a weird person! And do impersonations.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.

Believe the best of everybody.

Do the thing you fear, it's sure to disappear.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.