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What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

Use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his nomination is rejected again this year.

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we made.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

Have faith in yourself and in the future.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Our struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown. Although it often seems that way.

What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name.

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off
when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

We need the breast and the brightest to- umm the best and the brightest ...

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

We were taught never to give up, never to passively accept fate, but to exhaust every last ounce of will and hope in the face of any challenge.

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

No one who works for a living should live in poverty.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.