Actually we're very lucky John McCain is not in charge because I think we would be in perpetual war.

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

We need to get insurance out of the way and let the consumer interact with their doctor the way they did basically before World War II.

I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy a gun. That is a real problem.

I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged. At the very least, we should debate. We should debate whether or not we are going to relinquish our rights, or whether or not we are going to have a full and able debate over whether or not we can live within the Constitution, or whether or not we have to go around the Constitution.