We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

Such beautiful strength lives in uncompromising humility.

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

You can't force someone to see the truth, just like you can't force a blind man to see.

I try to rekindle the fire of the Holy Eucharist

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'