I don't like to see facts twisted, untruths fabricated to give the [Supreme Court] nominee a black eye, even before he comes before Senate committee.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

The Fed has the ability to put money out, it's got the ability to take money back in, and if they don't do that, we will have hyperinflation worse than we had in 1980 and 1981.

Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.

I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

The bottom line is, there have been a lot of nuts elected to the United States Senate.

May the Lord revive your spirit.

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

It takes two sides to make a deal, two sides to negotiate and two sides to make it go bad.

People who call me the Twilight girl and mean it. Please, pigeon hole me. That means I did it right.

The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.

I know where he should have put his flag up, and he'd have got plenty of help. (said at Stamford Bridge)

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.