“Our seniors’ retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.”

When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves

I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn’t get any better than that from here on.

People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that’s a hallmark of a very good leader.

I’m shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

When you’re up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it’s looking right at you; it’s a different viewpoint.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that’s how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate’s history.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I’ll be voting for a woman for president.

You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for.

I’m so proud of Maryland’s firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.

George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that’s what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

I’m no longer interested in making political films. There’s something old-fashioned about them.

The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760’s was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640’s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

I’m not into smoke-filled rooms. I don’t have the time for byzantine political intrigues.

The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.