The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

No one in this body wants to see terrorism and the rule of force prevail in Iraq. Some on the other side say otherwise, but I believe they know better.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

When you feel good about what youve written, there is just no high that is greater.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

I think that turning on the charm without being fake is really important.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.