As the saying goes, I have big heels to fill.

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

I'm not going to put my energy into focusing on things that are hypothetical that we don't know.

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

Even as a supporter of Roe v. Wade, I am compelled to acknowledge that the language both sides use on this subject can be unfortunately misleading and unconstructive.... Everyone is worse off for it.