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I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

I still recall the excitement & patriotic fervour in Kargil when Tiger Hill was won.

I still have that new senator smell.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

I think the country has had enough Bushes.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

It has always been thought perfectly womanly to be a scrub- woman in the Legislature and to take care of the spittoons; that is entirely within the charmed circle of woman's sphere; but for women to occupy any of those official seats would be degrading.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.