Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

What's in a name, anyway? That which we call a nose by any other name would still smell.

Be the character you want to be described as!(In a good way, of course!)

Sometimes there’s someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish.

I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

We are getting more and more imports from abroad.

Music has always been in me.

I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.