Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.

I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.

No day is alike, nor should it be.

By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself.

... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.

As one would expect, the Pope’s schedule is quite disciplined—he wakes up at four o’clock each morning and runs on the treadmill for an hour. I’m totally kidding. Nobody’s knees have time for that.

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

I have a lion inside me, and I had to feed it words every few days; when I don't, it begins to eat me instead.