Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

It's amazing to me that no matter what city, what state, no matter where I am, a woman will come up to me and say "Thank you, thank you" for writing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which funds services for victims and pushes to put more assailants behind bars.

When you're appealing to people's fears and anxieties, you can make some gains.