In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Our hope is we move beyond denial and into debate... If we cleaned up the air, would it really be bad for us?

Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.

I think we're all experiencing climate change. Experience is an effective teacher. It's sometimes a very harsh teacher. So we will be taught about climate change.

The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new policeradio in the name of Homeland Security.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

It's all about being happy with your life and having fun. At least that's what works for me.

Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!