I have voted that climate change is happening and it's also caused by man.

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

Alexi Giannoulias' top aide was a longtime BP lobbyist.

I've always backed energy independence policies, but I've heard from people on this issue like no other. The energy interests of Illinois are far broader and deeper than my North Shore district.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

How you see and depict yourself will be the exact way people will treat you--Period, Think your worth millions, people will treat you like millions, think pennies, get treated like pennies

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

The States acceded to the Union.

It doesn't take a year to sing a song. Takes a year for people to figure out how to market it.

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

President Bush almost killed me.

It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse.