Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

The moment you are wrapped up in the world, you become blind to the things wrapped in the mysteries.

When I stopped to take a breath, I noticed I had wings.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

I'm guided by my enthusiasm.

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!