Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

We will have health care reform in America.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Enlightenment is to replace your own self with the self of the universe!

You can achieve anything you put your mind and hard work to.

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

I have loved women even to madness, but I have always loved liberty better.

Anything worth doing is worth 100%.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.