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.

We need willingness to consider different mission in Iraq.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

Over my 24 years in the Senate, Jim, I've never voted against anyone because of their substantive views.

Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.