Effective security measures do not come cheap.

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.

Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.

I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.

that's the thing with secrets. They're leaky

If she were honest, weakness should be masked at all times. Any weakness could, and would be exploited.

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.

God meant for things to be much easier than we have made them

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.