I've always been for immigration reform; in 2007 I just didn't feel it had enough protections.

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.

You know there’s this gaping space between us, and if I leaned forward I’d grab Dex’s shirt without ever touching him. You know there’s a three-inch-thick glass wall separating us.Now we know, too.

I've always wanted to design a Mustang. I just never really had the opportunity in my career because the timing was never right.

I really feel actors should try and do as much diverse work as possible to try and keep it interesting.

I talked about deporting people that are here illegally. They're here illegally. We either have a country or we don't. I talked about deporting people that are here illegally.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!