"I think it helped me define the principles that I already held. And I think it gave me a better understanding of the value of commitment to a cause. I think it made me appreciate that my individual strengths were not sufficient to help me do the things that I needed to do."
"If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I'm afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. ..."
"Now that we're entering into an era where a simple majority decides all judicial nominations, we will see more and more nominees from the extremes of both left and right. I do not see how that that th..."
"I hate the press. I hate you, especially. But the fact is, we need you. We need a free press."
"That we Republicans have lost our way. That we came to Washington to change government, and government changed us."
"Do Sarah Palin and I disagree on a specific issue? Yeah, because we're both mavericks."
"The late Republican Senator John McCain, Apple founder Steve Jobs, and union leader Richard Trumka will also receive the award posthumously."
"I don`t give a damn what the President of the United States wants to do or what anybody else wants to do. We will not waterboard; we will not torture."
"The position, is you believe there’s an exception for rape, incest, and life of mother. But you want the platform that you’re supposed to be leading to have no exceptions."
"That senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin."
"Russia was a gas station masquerading as a country."