I enjoy the company of prostitutes for the following reasons: It represses women, it's generally illegal.

SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect womens access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.

For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

I was a very, very good congressman.

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

No matter where you live, live with dignity.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

A congressman sent a tweet that compared president Obama to Adolf Hitler. He has now apologized. It's not helping that he apologized to Hitler.

It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

Gain control of the emotions. Be the helmsperson and not blown around by the winds of emotion. While there will be winds, you can navigate them or even use them to expedite your journey.

I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights.

If you don’t know God as beautiful and satisfying, you don’t know him.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.

Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.