Community colleges are one of Americas great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college educ….

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron..

On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women….

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change..

We’re going to foment our own revolution. So I say to the women out there in America, let’s keep this fight going! Put on your lipstick, square your ….

In my very first term there was an issue that brought us [George Mitchell, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd] together in a very deep, emotional, and personal ….

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market..

Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take….

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious….

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush….

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many..

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head..

College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families.

You cant get more for less. You get what you pay for..

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States..

Politics is social work with power..

When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint..

I knew of Senator [George] Mitchell because he was very close friends with who was soon to be the senior senator, Paul Sarbanes. Paul Sarbanes and Ge….

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each ….

Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had….