The traits in career politicians the public detests most are produced when ego triumphs over principle.

All change starts with a distant rumble at the grassroots level.

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

One poll showed that Americans have a higher opinion of witches, the IRS and hemorrhoids than Congress

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

When I came to Washington, I was troubled to observe so many similarities between the behaviors of drug-addicted patients and my political colleagues. In Washington power is like morphine.

Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.

Everybody is gonna die from something. And so the deal is how to use each day to move things forward for both you and the people you love and the country you love.

The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.'

I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, "The one who asked me to and meant it.

Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.

We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.

It's not enough to create value, you have to interpret the value for your prospects and customers so that they can feel the value emotionally and empirically.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.

Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.