A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

More and more Americans are asking about the price that we have to pay when Wal-Mart comes into a community, treats workers poorly, violates immigration laws and squashes small businesses.

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Go to Fox News for conservative, maybe go to msnbc for liberal, and be right here on CNN for the God's honest truth.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

I would have beaten Bloomberg like a rented mule.

For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

Adorn your sacred-existence.

Look at you. Riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels.

I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?

We do not need to become unhappy just because things don't go our way.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

We can plant a house, we can build a tree.

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And you don't yet ­understand that it will all go away.