Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds.Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

There is nothing wrong where we reach a point where maybe everybody could claim a victory. I think it would be good for the American people, which should be our first priority.

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

I think the first order of business after the vote on the articles of impeachment is censure.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Even if they walked away, even if they ran to the other side of the world, even if I thought that I didn’t have a chance in hell, I still want to know that I did everything I could to make it happen.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

Stories matter. Many stories matter.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.