Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.
When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.
I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.
By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.
I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.
Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.
All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.
When the public's right to know is threatened, all other public rights are threatened.
Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses.
When the Chinese told Google that they had to block sites or they couldn't do [business] in their country, they managed to figure out how to block sites.
I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.
Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.
Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.
It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.
American workers are first rate.
The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.
We need willingness to consider different mission in Iraq.
Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.
I will only vote to confirm a nominee for attorney general who is truly independent and who will guarantee reforms that restore and uphold the Constitution.
I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.
There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. That is not in debate. I also agree with President Bush that Saddam Hussein is a threat to peace and must be disarmed, to quote President Bush directly.
