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.

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.

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.

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from one type of character to another type of character.

What, Sheamus? Oh no, I can see him...he's pretty pale......What? oh no, he's even whiter than that. He's like a jar of mayonaisse with eyeballs and a ketchup haircut.

Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.