As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

Today we have two Vietnams, side by side, north and south.

Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.' For that is what it is - for people to be able to live.

Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

What am I a prostitute? Am I your prostitute? You can't prostitute me.

Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.

All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

In my better sense of mind, I know that I'm far from alone and far from the worst, and the earth keeps spinning. Everything keeps moving, with or without me.

The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire.

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.

It must be hard for humans, forever floundering through inconvenient geography. Humans are always lost. It's a basic characteristic. It explains a lot about them.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.