America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

The height of your achievements is determined by the depth of your self-belief, the strength of your resolve and the intensity of your efforts.

He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

Leave my loneliness unbroken

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.