It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

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

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

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

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

We know we're up against the wall. We know how difficult a challenge it is, being in the minority.

Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

The campaign is over. It's time for the work of governing to begin.

It would be nice if we could clear up the nominations that are still out there, and there are a lot of them.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

I've been amazed at the degree to which Democrats, in particular, have expressed their enthusiasm for the president's manner with which he handled this budget.

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

We must govern from the middle, or we will not be able to govern at all.

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

People have to evolve.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.

By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.

Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of comfort zone your biggest challenge.

It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

Our life becomes happier when we learn to appreciate all that we have rather than letting our focus be on what we do not have.

Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.

If you look at any of the big companies, whether it is IBM or L'Oreal, they have a corporate religion and corporate self-image that makes it very difficult for them to execute in different areas.

The aim of open government is to take advantage of the know-how and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside government institutions to work together with those inside government to solve problems.

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.

I really like Rag & Bone jeans; I wear a lot of those.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

I can definitely say the older Ive got the better Ive become at being a dad and a husband.

Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.

I am always with you. I do not know where I end and you begin.

Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.