The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

In the United States Senate, one of the things I observed in the early days - and it's still used - and that is that you take someone's argument and then you misrepresent it and misstate and disagree with it. And it's very effective. I've done it myself a number of times. But eventually, eventually people catch on.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?

We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.