Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

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.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty.

Besides, I am staying in a luxurious hotel, not in some slum!”.Sand of Passion

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

Together, we can bring our planet's heartbeat back.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Take away wilderness and you take away the opportunity to be American.