In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.

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.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.