I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.

We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

I support the president 100 percent - when hes right.

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

We live by faith and not by sight.

It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.

The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.

Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.

Lies were only as strong as the suckers that believed them.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.