The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.

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.

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.