My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work.

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.

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

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.

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

Step out on faith and walk into your purpose.

A baby isn’t meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.

Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.

I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.