The press is critical at this time, and if you look at history, this is so critical.

I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.

We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.

I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

Voting against the resolution authorizing the use of military force in Iraq was one of my proudest moments as a senator. It is long past time to close this tragic chapter in American history.

When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be anything that I would be a part of. But I realized that I had to get involved. Then, when Martin Luther King was assassinated and the Vietnam War was raging, I felt that my world was falling apart. I had these two beautiful children - three and one - and I just said, "I have to make it better."