I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people.

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money.

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

I am a liberated teacher. A person who meditates with me, even though they may be thousands of miles away, will draw that light into them.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that's one of the reasons for campus unrest.

What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.

All of us as consumers have gotten spoiled, ... We expect customized goods and services at commodity prices. The only way we can do that is to cut the fat out of our price structure.