I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

Candidates With Deeply Held Christian Beliefs Are Unfit and Disqualified From Serving As A Federal Judge.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

We're going to hammer guns on the anvil of relentless legislative strategy! We're going to beat guns into submission!

The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

All we ask for is registration, just like we do for cars.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

The only people who use them [so-called assault weapons] are mass murderers.

Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

My purpose of life is very simple

Poor Mr. Smith, having been so rudely dragged from his high horse, was never able to mount it again, and completed the lecture in a manner not at all comfortable to himself.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

I was of the type who gets bullied rather than the one who does the bullying, which I'm glad about. I'd rather be that than a bully.

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems