Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

We need willingness to consider different mission in Iraq.

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.