I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

Fear ain't respect—how could I have ever thought it was?

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

Friends: how many have 'em? How long before they split like atoms? Don't ask me, but what I do stand behind Is someone havin' your back seems hard to find.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.