After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

our mission does not consist in our appearance, a beautiful haircut or in showing off our body, decorations and clothes

You did love me, " I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.