John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who.

We were never motorheads. We knew fast cars. We knew how to siphon gas - me - charge the battery when it was down. But never hot-wired a car.

I do not believe that we have a right to tell other people, women, that they can't control their bodies.

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

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

I've been a strong supporter of public financing my whole career. I'm the first guy to introduce a public financing bill to the United States Senate in 1973.