If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

At the unveiling at the White House of the presidential portrait, President Bush pointed out that Hillary Clinton was the first sitting Senator in history to have her portrait hanging in the White House.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

Hospice means end of life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

It was important for us to be as supportive as our candidates and as our incumbent senators would have us be.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

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.

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.

Senators, like everyone else, want to feel a part of this decision-making process. They want to feel included.

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

Let's cause some senators distress.

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

It's important right now to continue to have your patients contact their senators and their congresspeople to say we have a problem. We want you to help solve it, we want you to be involved.

'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Iraq has become, for better or for worse, the front on the war on terrorism, and so we've got to do this, and I can understand why congressmen and senators would take their responsibility seriously, but I think in the end we'll get the money.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents.