Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.

[Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.

Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony.

We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth

Every time there's been an out-of-bounds remark made by a Republican, no matter where they are, I have repudiated them.