History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

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.