What can happen in 30 years? A senator can become a multi-millionaire in public office.

When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.

I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage.

Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer.

If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be ‘Mad Men,’ treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Samurai are born to die.Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.