I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

I am very optimistic about - about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

In my neighborhood, when you've got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.

You know you're a success when you look at your kids and realize they turned out better than you.

There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan.