They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

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.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person.

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

Every effort must be made to increase forfeiture income.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

You said I'm a god. Bring me down from heaven. I...I want you to see me as a man.

I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.

I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.