Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

You are a perfect woman, a magical blend of beauty, intelligence, and spirit. Without you, my life is nothing.

Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

But I knew one more thing. That people w ho denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

If you think creating a world without any poverty is impossible, let's do it. Because it is the right thing to do.

Preparing for the ups and downs of life.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.