When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen.

I've been in a lot of elections.

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.