We're paying more for the privilege of getting sick and dying early. Once again, it makes no sense. And once again, no one in Washington is talking about how to fix it.

Five years have come, and five years have gone, and still we stand together as one. We come back to this place to remember the heartbreaking anniversary - and each person who died here - those known and unknown to us, whose absence is always with us.

You're going to see a million people here who have the courage to come and not let terrorists win, and that's exactly what we should all do.

You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, "Do you believe 'em?"

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.