Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

I will get stronger. I will return.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

At the end, nothing will matter except the love that you gave away.

One's mutual responsibility to any individual determines the role of one person who he is.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people’s good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

We have made the Reich by propaganda

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.

I find I'm an old soul.