We must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those that make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.

We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted

America must continue diplomacy, even as we continue the war, to expand the coalition of the willing to share the burden of war and to share the responsibility and the economic cost of rebuilding Iraq

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.