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

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

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.

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.

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.

Hero is he alone who vies with powers supreme!

Do not disagree with each other, enrich the soldiers, despise everyone else.

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

Learn to say " No" without any regrets

there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.

Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

France is an old country that needs to wake up.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

We don't teach our children how to dream.