The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C.

We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.

Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick somebody out of the phone book if we have to.

It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.

I'm running because I think the world is falling apart.

A torpid heart in agony needs a pen to bleed

Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them

Love is unknown. To open the heart in trust is unknown. They say love hurts. It doesn't have to.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.

To be and not to be, that is the answer.

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.