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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.
Vermonters often ask me whether I am pessimistic about the future of our country. My honest answer is that I am not.
Catholics are every bit as diverse as any other sort of voters out there, with conservative Democrats and moderates.
I can't throw a nickel from the Capitol without hitting a think tank that's been financed by one of the Gulf States.
If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.
May we help more than we hurt, may we seek to understand more than be understood and may we love more than we judge.
With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.
When you're talking about long-term deficit reduction, $4 trillion worth, entitlement reform needs to be part of it.
New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.
At least 99.92% of illegal immigrants and visa overstays without known crimes on their records did not face removal.
Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.
My hero is a guy named Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt used to say, walk softly, talk softly but carry a big stick.
It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.
I tell people it's like shopping for a car.People are taking candidates out for a test drive, seeing what they like.
[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.
The biggest mistakes I've ever made are when I've been rushed. If I'm overwhelmed, I slow down. It's more effective.
If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.
Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.
Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.
I don't think it's rational for a country to try to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in a restaurant in Washington.
We still have billions of barrels in Alaska that sit untapped. There are abundant reserves offshore in the lower 48.
The private sector doesn't sit around and say - 'Well, since the president said we should do this, we should do it.'
In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.
Before I was in the Senate, I was a superintendent of the Denver Public Schools, and before that, I was in business.
Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.
I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.
I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.
The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.
We see - every week or two, we see another story of a small business that went out of business because Donald Trump.
Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?
Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs.
One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.
On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.
Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.
Every working family in America knows how hard it is today to find affordable childcare or early childhood education.
Health care in Denmark is universal, free of charge and high quality. Everybody is covered as a right of citizenship.
President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.
In America, our differences matter, but our country matters more. That's the attitude I wanted to take to the Senate.
We have history as a guide, and history suggests that this brand of comprehensive reform ... is a recipe for failure.
Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and causes global warming.
There are thousands of capable Americans who would pursue a degree in nursing if we had room in our schools for them.