I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos

A little thinking is a dangerous thing.

You don't have to be afraid of change. You don't have to worry about what's being taken away. Just look to see what's been added.

I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

In knowing ourselves to be unique, we possess the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question...

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

I have three closets in my bedroom.