It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

The Holy Spirit reveals the Truth.

You are more focus when you confront.

A secret life taught me: it doesn't get easier, you become stronger.

No one starts out with the answers. You figure them out as you go and you learn from the people who figured them out before you.

You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

Kettle thingies. Yum.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.