There's nothing more powerful than coming out and being who you are.

While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart.

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

The Democrats' plan for 2006? Take the House and Senate and impeach the president. With our nation at war, is this the kind of Congress you want?

I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.

I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

The life you have built around you is a reflection of what is within you. If you don't like what you see, go inside.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady...take your purse.'

A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing.

You need to fail in order to find the right solution.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.