I am willing to take risks, and willing to tolerate failure as long as we admit it, can learn from it and keep moving forward.

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland,

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.

could cripple us going into the midterm U.S. senatorial, congressional and legislative elections.

This is a victory for consumers who depend on these medications to help them make it through the day, ... A license to manufacture prescription drugs is not a license to engage in unfair market manipulation to boost profits ...