I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

My dad just imprinted in my mind from a very young age that you always do what you say you're gonna do when you say you're gonna do it.

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

I'm a lawmaker, but I really don't like laws.

Not every problem is solvable, okay.

I want to see the economy rebound.

I saved $8,000 and created a construction company when I was 25.

If it took multiple debt ceiling hikes, I'd rather achieve the savings.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

It's not that the (social media) tools themselves inspire trust and collaboration. We use them as a medium to connect, and thus generate trust and enthusiasm.

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

In any given society the authority of man over man runs in inverse proportion to the intellectual development of that society.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.