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.

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.

You're in there with me. Personally.

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

The only unchangable certainty in life is that nothing is unchangable or certain.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.