So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

LOVE is meant to make you Happy, not sad. What's the use of Love, if it makes you mad!

Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.

Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?

Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

What a difference one person can make!

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.