The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment.

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.

If my heart was a bottle, your kiss would be the cork that seals in our love.

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer

Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.

Flowers are like the sweet babies of the nature

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

We dont invent our natures. Theyre issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.