Edward Brooke

I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

My campaign confirmed my belief that although there are bigots in America, whose hateful rhetoric seizes the media's attention, the vast majority of people do not harbor such prejudice.

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.