Our leadership in D.C. should be bold and determined.

People want to give everybody a pass, but leadership comes at a price.

We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.

Leadership has a price.

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

It's absolutely shameful that Rep. Grijalva would try to use tribes as political pawns to implement the misguided agenda of extremist environmental groups.

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.

Urges. Mercy, the urges.

I never wrote him. I never saw him again. He was just gone, this dear, dear man, this friend of my soul in the hospital so long ago, disappeared. This is a New York story too.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

I didn't think it was possible at my age, honestly. They call it a geriatric pregnancy.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.

it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

When a city is unstimulating, you get pretty isolated.