The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations.

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.

I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

Derivatives are a huge, complex issue.

I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.

CEOs are no different than the guy in the mailroom. They all have to learn how to manage better the risk created by our increasingly risk-shifting world.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

One sign of an excellent speech? 'Can people repeat something they heard, word for word?'