Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.