Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Our lives are written by the divine hands of Him we are merely actors destined to complete the roles in the cosmic play. All that would make difference would be how well will you act!

How can you know God if you don't seek out his voice, find it, and learn to follow the path he is leading you on

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages

Hey, we're like soldiers. Would you go to the Roman army and ask them if they thought they were going to win the battle? If I didn't think we could win, I wouldn't be here. I'd stay home and get fat.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

We've already donated to Haiti. It's called the U.S. income tax.

Here we don't pray for the weak, we prey on the weak.