Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.

If we are serious about combating the childhood obesity epidemic and improving child nutrition, then everyone must chip in -- parents, schools, and yes even Congress.

America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

When I campaigned, I'd let them throw a punch, but by gosh, I'd throw two back. I always said, the first rule in politics is never defend, always attack. I still believe that.

Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

If you are wise live as you can if you cannot live as you would.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

I hardly recognize what I do well. I just do it.

What you can do is embrace what you have right now and to allow it to fill the vacancies of what you didn't get yesterday.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.