TOM HARKIN

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Isn’t that a sweetheart deal. The Attorney General is appointed by the President; then investigates the President.

If you want to go into the court of world opinion, you had better go in with clean hands.

What has the filibuster become? The filibuster has become a tool for slowing everything down…a tool by which one senator who announces that his object is to impose gridlock on the Senate, can do so.

Jobs are not the issue. Even the slaves had jobs.

Don't read our lips. Read our record.

Our America is an America where human needs come before human greed.

Trickle down economics says that the best way to feed the birds is to give oats to the horse.

We raised our right hands ... and swore to uphold and defend the Constitution. We didn't swear to support and defend the President.

In place of a pay raise, we're going to enact legislation that will provide every senator and member of Congress at all times with an accountant and a clergyman.

You've got to pass legislation fast and not give the special interests time to cut you up.

… how easily moral courage and common decency can be subverted by political expediency.

The first rule in politics is never defend, always attack.

The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country.

These districts at the federal and state level that are gerrymandered tend to produce a lot of extremism.

Every moment of free time is eaten up by fundraising.

I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

Whereas Iraq has consistently breached its cease-fire agreement between Iraq and the United States, entered into on March 3, 1991, by failing to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, and refusing to permit monitoring and verification by United Nations inspections; Whereas Iraq has developed weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological capabilities, and has made positive progress toward developing nuclear weapons capabilities

When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.