Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

I never had an official job, but I did play at a local cantina every Tuesday night, and I babysat a lot.

I'm being made aware of my mortality all the time.

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people.