I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.

War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.