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The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice.
The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.
Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.
The court doesn't follow public opinion. The court's views are radically out of step with public opinion.
I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
The nature of the Internet and the importance of net neutrality is that innovation can come from everyone.
In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
Rebuilding our relationship with Cuba would be a win for American business and a win for the Cuban people.
I never was a great sports player. In fact, in fourth grade, I had the second to the worst softball throw.
We have to enforce the individual mandate. We're losing a lot of money that is not coming into the system.
Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.
If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?
No state can invest the kinds of dollars in infrastructure necessary on their own. They need federal help.
The change we seek for our nation is not the choice of an individual but must be the calling of a country.
We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.
We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.
Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.
If a future U.S. president were to refuse to defend an ally under attack, NATO would lose all credibility.
Donald Trump is saying the right thing. We're bringing in so much labor, it's pulling down working people.
We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration.
A strong E.U., a strong NATO, and a true strategic partnership between them is profoundly in our interest.
I've been elected numerous times in South Carolina. If I'm on the ballot, I'm going to win South Carolina.
The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.
The science is settled; it's not even a consensus, it is a unanimity that human life begins at conception.
The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.
[The Clean Power Plan] is an important step toward curbing carbon pollution and addressing climate change.
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.
We have promised to do better, and no Republican concern should ever be enough to filibuster our own bill.
The Hepatitis B vaccine is now given to newborns. We sometimes give five and six vaccines all at one time.
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.
Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.
Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
It's really building Air America that I'm focused on, and for me, that almost only means doing a good show.
I actually spoke at the christening of the USS Minnesota - it was a really, very cool submarine in Norfolk.
It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
Right now, the leadership in Iran is telling their citizens one thing. Our President is telling us another.
I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.
I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.
Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.