I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have access to it, it's usually a sense of my understanding what the best course of action or the best thing for me to do. By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.