For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

Don’t waste your life on things that have no eternal value.

You are such a kind and caring man, and so sizzling hot and studly. Please, please don’t go nutty on me.

As dull as moon face, never seem to change.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Primitive does not mean stupid.

The writer works in a lonely way.

No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.