Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Hire an angel. They need the work.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious.

I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against.

Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

As I've explained to my wife many times, you have to kill your wife or mistress to get on the front page of the papers.

God has promised that whatever you face, you are not alone. He knows your pain. He loves you. And He will bring you through the fire.

Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.