If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

You write to be read. That is the bottom line.

I'll always touch you.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.

My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.