I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I think the men and women serving in Iraq today deserve special recognition for that.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.

Life is about enjoying the journey, not the end destination.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.