So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.