Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

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.

Intolerance breeds hatred. Hatred creates divisions. Divisions destroy common grounds.

It is in our idleness in our dreams that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

Somehow it always comes back to coal at school.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.

If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.