I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.

And the banks - hard to believe in a time when we're facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created - are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot.

Millions of Americans take vitamins safely every day, including me. Vitamins and mineral supplements taken in recommended doses are safe. It's the designer supplements that are worrisome.

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

We will have health care reform in America.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.

We have 11 million people in this country that need a pathway to citizenship.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Significance is about making a difference, and its pursuit should ideally come before the pursuit of success – or at least at the same time.

The great actors always play themselves.

Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.

To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

Death does determine life.

When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.