If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history.

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive.

There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.