Mitch McConnell is a professional arm twister. He's done this for many years. He has a lot of power in his caucus.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

The White House has something in common with the rest of America, and that is disdain for Congress. It is hard to blame them.

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

What? You don't trust me?

Well, Im wrestling alligators.

For Donald Trump to dismiss out of hand the intelligence community's fact gathering is, frankly - doesn't bode well for him protecting our country.

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

My mother always says that indifference is the greatest cruelty.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

...living more sustainably means living happier, more balanced and potentially more fulfilled lives than most of us 'choose' to live today, whatever Jeremy Clarkson may have to say about that!

... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

I had no intention to cover my tracks since I am not a politician and I do not represent anybody.