Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections.

A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.