We need to get rid of the Federal Elections Commission. It's a joke. It doesn't enforce the law.

People whose terms go for five years or longer, like FCC commissioners. That's a higher standard. Then district judges, who are appointed for a lifetime but can be overruled. Then Court of Appeals judges. They're not the highest level, but they're almost the final word. And then, of course, the Supreme Court.

I'm one of the only members of the U.S. Senate who isn't a millionaire. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a millionaire. But there ought to be a little economic diversity in the Senate and I try to provide it.

Speech doesn't corrupt. Money corrupts, and money isn't speech.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

I've been outspent by my opponents every time I've run for U.S. Senate.