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

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

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

The great adventures which our opponents offer is a voyage into the past. Progress is our heritage, not theirs. What is right for us as Democrats is also the right way for Democrats to win.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

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

My colleague Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, erroneously suggested that I support the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution. That simply is not true. ... Unlike biological evolution, intelligent design is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school science classes.