Health reform is an essential part of restoring America's economy and maintaining our competitiveness.

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.

Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them

If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

I think you can use some of those words on TV. But one thing you can't do is throw coffee, I've said it over and over again!

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

Governments are like underwear. They start smelling pretty bad if you don't change them once in a while.

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.