Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. Think well.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

When you hunt wisely, there is no need to run afterwards.

Story is important but the most important is the theme and how you're going to convey theme cinematically. I'm a believer also.

The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.

Home is where your teapots are.

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.