I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

I want to rebuild America.

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.