There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

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.

The reason that minorities and women dont have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.