This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.