I will continue my work in the United States Senate for Idaho.

There is a regulatory black hole that makes it possible for the pharmaceutical companies to be able to get the drugs to the stores that sell them, without the FDA being able to monitor it.

Nine young men and women showed the world that in the face of impossible odds, ordinary people could do extraordinary things.

Five decades ago, the Little Rock Nine took the lead in America's long march to freedom.

What I am opposed to is a rash war.

We do not accept their pursuit of nuclear weapons, in defiance of the international community.

We will never waver in the face of President Ahmadinejad's rhetoric.

Iran must know that it can give up its nuclear ambitions and support for terror, or it will face further isolation.

We should never shrink from raising our voices to put our own values up against the bankrupt values of the Iranian regime.

Let's be clear: the terrible atrocities of the Holocaust are historical facts, and their denial is offensive and outrageous.

I commend you for holding this important rally, and regret that I could not join you today.

I'm asking you to believe in yours.

If you join me, we're going to take our country back.

Iran is now the greatest strategic challenge to America in the Middle East in a generation.

This thing could take a new turn or a new shape, has that potential.

Arlen Specter is now willing to come out in my defense, arguing that it appears, by all that he knows, I have been railroaded and all of that. Having all of that, we have reshaped my statement a little bit to say it is my intent to resign…

I return to work today to this great body with a renewed spirit and a sharper focus.

Think of the irony. Columbia University, home of the core curriculum that prizes an in-depth understanding of Western civilization and the free exchange of ideas, is bringing to its campus a state sponsor of terror.