[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country. It’s ruining our world.

So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.

I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Men are not our problem; it's what we are trying to get from them that messes us up. We use guys like mirrors to see if we're valuable.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

I always wear bronzer because I love the way my skin looks when it's tan.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women.