So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.

You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams

Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.

It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?

Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

Besides Bob Satterfield, the only ones who ever hurt me were my ex-wives.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

I love to teach - that's my role.