There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart - it's all a person has.

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is the message of human ideals; it is the message of human dignity; it is the message of the freedom of ideas, speech, press, the right to assemble, to worship, and the message of freedom of movement of people.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.