Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.