I want judges on the Supreme Court who will not use that position to impose their personal policy preferences or political agenda on the American people.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.

I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

Constantly look for the good in people and in situations. When you find it, tell the person.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

We say to seniors, we understand how important prescription drug coverage, so prescription drugs will be an ingrinable part of the Medicare plan.

Obviously, I think it was an aberration, but it is a reality. We're still a team that won nine games, but this one was a real shock.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.