In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

Every child should have a safe place in their life.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

Come to West Virginia and we'll show you how to live... how to treat people. We're open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move.

Why would anybody not own a gun?

I think it's time to rebuild America.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” -

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Right now in my career, it's like I'm having more fun than I've ever had, so it's kind of like, 'Man, I can't stop now.'

Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.

I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.