If you start very far to the left, it's harder to get to the middle.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.

How does the weakness of the dollar affect your business?

The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

All of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.

Hey moon, please forget to fall down

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet whether he eat little or much but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

A sharp spear needs no polish.

Sometimes you have to experience the bad, so that you can learn to appreciate the good things that enter your life.

I worry that a Trump presidency doesn't show the true face of America to the world, but I think that peaceful protest all around this country, it showed to the world who we really are.