The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.

True love for our nation will compel us to shout on the streets and get on our knees and ask people to repent

Through the grace shown to us in the gospel, there is something distinctly Christlike about a mother's love for her child.

Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.

The truth is, I always want to kiss you.

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

Every meaningful success I have accomplished was made possible by love.

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

How will you be remembered? As a loner and a loser.

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.