A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.

A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? 200,000.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

If I had to vote for the bill again, I'd vote for it tomorrow.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

The darkness was memory.

Telling one lie begets another lie that begets another lie and before you know it that lie has grandkids, great grandkids and keeps growing. It’s like Lay’s Potato Chips, you can’t tell just one!

When weeds go to heaven, I suppose they will be flowers.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving force hate? Seems really f***ing dumb to me.

America will not tolerate being pushed around by anybody, anyplace.