I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

We don't get ourselves dry cleaned.

Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.

We all have the right to call each other names. Rudeness is a deeply held constitutional value.

The single most important thing you can do politically for gay rights is to come out. Not to write a letter to your congressman but to come out.