If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

Both candidates in this election [2004] pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference - the great difference is that I intend to win it first.

We got results that would not have been possible without a negotiating partner like Joe Biden.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.