As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.

Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.

A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.

What was fascinating to me, is that she [Hillary Clinton] still cannot answer eloquently, answers about her e-mails, she still can't explains to me why she's not a third term of [Barack] Obama.

But I also want to change the dynamics of this debate, which has kept us gridlocked into positions which caused people to shoot at abortion clinics and other Americans to view it as the only issue in American politics, ... There are areas we can agree on. ... We need to work together to eliminate abortion.