Blanche Lincoln

“We need to make sure that we are paying our teachers a salary that is not only fair but that will be able to attract and retain the best and brightest to our classrooms.”

“I've always maintained that I see myself as a mom first. I'm a senator second.”

“My state has a high-school graduation rate of only 65 percent. So we have a lot of work to do in our state in the area of education.”

“Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures, since the productions of nature are the materials of art.”

“Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, and we must do everything we can to help them succeed.”

“The estate tax has been a contentious issue for many years; it is a tax on death, and it is a tax that is unfair.”

“I am a pro-life, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Democrat.”

“We've got to be responsible about our spending, and we've got to make sure that we're not putting our country in a position where we can't pay our bills.”

“Health care is a right, not a privilege.”

“We need to invest in our infrastructure, our roads and bridges, our ports and airports.”