Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.

The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.