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If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

Erosion of faith and trust in government - that is the real problem that confronts us.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

If our governments are so compromised that they will not tell us the truth, then we must step forward to grasp it.

Sometimes compromise is painful.

We have learned a long time ago that one cannot compromise with terrorists.

Imagine a country that flies into space, launches Sputniks, creates such a defense system, and it can't resolve the problem of women's pantyhose. There's no toothpaste, no soap powder, not the basic necessities of life. It was incredible and humiliating to work in such a government.

We simply cannot afford to allow our government to go unscrutinised, most of all in amid the bleak seeming imperatives of the 'war on terror'.

Governments are out of control, irresponsible, never have enough money, never tighten their own belts, and when they are forced to, they always threaten to shut down police departments and teachers and all these things.

Politics is compromise.