I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

In Iowa, we take care of people. That's all I think I need to say.

We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.

Even though me and Paul Ryan disagree on a whole lot of things, when he stood up and confronted those ugly words that [Donald] Trump said, I was proud of him.

There's one way of looking at the Trump phenomenon that he's essentially a Doofus or he is an opportunist.

I'd like to say is that I am a patriotic, loyal American. I love my country and the values that it stands for. And I am a Muslim.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

Dream as if everything is possible.

I listen to Ustad Vilayat Khan's 'Raga Khamaj' and 'Raga Jaijaiwanti' virtually every morning, a lot of Abdullah Ibrahim, Michael Kiwanuka, Savages, and contemporary Ugandan pop.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.

I came out of the womb wearing make-up!

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

One of the things that I heard for years and years, never drive Russia and China together. And Obama has done that.

Nothing unites people as sharing the same affliction.