The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

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

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.