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.

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

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.

Many sheep but one Shepherd.

No person is ever wrong in how they experience their reality.

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art.

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

Willpower is not about resisting, forcing, or controlling--it's about choosing.

America - love it or leave it.