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

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.

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

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.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

When your heart, mind and soul is in harmony - you walk with love, you walk with beauty.

What you believe of yourself is what you will become.

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

Of all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to except for the society of the true seekers, which has very few living members at any one time.

The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old.

People loved to talk about how Frank O'Hara didn't really care about getting published. That doesn't jibe with my experience.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

The world as dreamed and the world as lived cross-pollinate each other.

We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.