If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.

I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me.

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up, do you feel in the pit of your stomach you can't wait to go to work? And when you're ready to go home Friday afternoon, do you say, 'I can't wait to go home?'

You know, we have three branches of government. We have a House. We have a Senate. We have a President.

America's strength in the past has been our ability to bring family members to join other family members in the United States and to look at skills but not have it be the only determination of how you get here.

I don't require a background check to contribute to my campaign. And so there are probably lots of people with unsavory backgrounds and pasts who have given to both Democrats and Republicans.

You can just assume that better law enforcement response is going to quell the epidemic of gun violence in this country.

The skill of telemarketing does not necessarily translate into governing.

We have a cleaner system of government in this state where people run based on their ideas, not based on their ability to raise money.

I have gone from a proponent of campaign finance reform to a revolutionary during my time in public service.

I think progressives understand that we are Americans at the same time as we are global citizens. We are interested first and foremost in creating peace and prosperity here at home, but we aren't blind to the fact that injustice anywhere in the world is meaningful, important, and worth thinking about.

American values don't begin and end with destroyers and aircraft carriers.