We have other legislation that all of you are aware that I have been so active on, with my colleagues here, and that is to shut down the gun shows.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

People at .08 are too impaired to drive. Studies show that at .08, the ability to perform critical driving functions is decreased by as much as 60 percent.

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

Having members of the Bush administration actually sit down and discuss counter terrorism with the very countries that support terrorists is absurd.

The ocean is tired. It's throwing back at us what we're throwing in there.

I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

You have to chase your dreams with all your heart.

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.

Work, which is considered an expression of a person’s value, also becomes a part of one’s spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

War is the most extraordinary, extreme human experience.

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

I feel I shall live a long time.