I think what happened to Ronnie White in the United states Senate was disgraceful,

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

The United States Senate is not here to just staple the paperwork on this deal and then salute it. We've got to go in there with an editing pencil, not a rubber stamp.

Absolutely not. For 18 years in the United States Senate I fought to protect Medicare, I protected premiums from going up for senior citizens, ... I will always do that.

[Changing Speeds : While most Americans savor their last days of summer, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats are gearing up to ask John Roberts tough questions about his judicial philosophy at his confirmation hearing next week.] We need to be sure this institution is in the mainstream of American thinking, ... What we need to do is ask the obvious questions.

The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.