I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.

The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.