Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

Your two guardian angels are always with you. The other angels come and go as we need them.

I love you Max,"Fang said..."God, Max I love you so much." I know. I thought. I've always known

Run a hand through your hair, like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.

There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.