Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.

Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects.

But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.