Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.

I went to high school with Al Capone.

Lucy is such a perfectionist.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.

At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

One of my biggest problems with comedy was that I did not understand some of the jokes.

Its really amazing that two people from such different backgrounds and geographical origins ever got together. That was perhaps part of the attraction.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made.

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority.

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans.

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

I hope that as the Senate and the American people learn more about me they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it.

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.