As elected leaders, we must each recommit ourselves to work together toward putting our country on a prosperous, sustainable path and restoring Americas promise as a land of opportunity.

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.

I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

The cost of energy is directly related to the cost of hiring workers and running a business.

The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.

A life without enemies is a life not lived.

Yet should there hover in their restless headsOne thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.