When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

Say something worth the words.

Spiders... the spiders... they want me to tap-dance. And I don't want to tap-dance!

If you think it's hard getting in, you should try getting out.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Remember that transformation is a present activity.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.

Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.

Punk gave me the strength to think, "Yeah, you can stand up and be counted, and do what you want in life, and not be hoodwinked by it all," in a simple, very general sweeping way.