Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country.

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

Now is not the time to open the border to receive Canadian beef down to the United States.

It is pretty hard to find the right result to a controversial issue.

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

The best evidence of unsophisticated ides is the behavior that follows.

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.