We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency and in our lives.

At my age you find yourself looking back from time to time and you begin to appreciate some of the things that happened to you.

You know, a better man for a better America. That's sort of our slogan.

Yet when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder how we could have unlearned it.

All you need to know is this. You can never go wrong by voting for a bill that fails, or against a bill that passes.

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

You read what Disraeli had to say. I don't remember what he said. He said something. He's no longer with us.