If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

Someone doesn't think immediately, "I want to be a lobbyist."

I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.