“I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'”
“Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement.”
“If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.”
“When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.”
“When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.”
“Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.”
“Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.”
“We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.”
“Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.”
“Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.”