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.

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.

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.

As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.

Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one’s ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void.

RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you.

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

I grew up in a Navy family.

Love of books is the best of all.

Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. [Lat., Noli Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

I was never NOT confident about doing scenes without my shirt - and now I'll find any excuse to take my shirt off!