You have to be courageous to not spend money, ... and we don't have many people who have that courage.

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.

One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.

There is that. I might have better luck telling him I’m in love with him. Jace thinks everyone’s in love with him anyway.” “But I,” said Clary, “actually am.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

To please men and to kill parasites are the only uses tobacco-its ultimate effects are the same in both cases.

An execution order hasn’t kept us apart before. There are ways to get around it. We will be together.” “Is that an order?” “No, a promise.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.