“There’s plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it’s a serious business.”

Antitrust law isn’t about protecting competing businesses from each other, it’s about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, ‘There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.’

As someone who’s spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,

I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.

What you see on the campaign trail is me. It’s easy being me.

There’s an element of that that’s either God-given, a talent that you’re not necessarily responsible for.

The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

I’m for Israel’s right to exist.

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow.

You have to love your country like an adult loves somebody, not like a child loves its Mommy. And right-wing Republicans tend to love America like a child loves its Mommy, where everything Mommy does is okay.

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.

We need to start by having a conversation about climate change. It would be irresponsible to avoid the issue just because it’s uncomfortable to talk about.

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn’t been any radio that did that. And so they weren’t trained.

We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I’m happy with it.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

I know for a fact that I’m problematic. I shouldn’t be looked to for any kind of guidance.

No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ’d, taking some Blood out of my own hand, that it consists of small round globuls driven through a Crystalline humidity or water.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.