This isn't all going to be done in one day, either.

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

Just when you think [Donald Trump] can stoop no lower, he does.

This Congress is out of control and in desperate need of adult supervision.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

After September 11, it became unpatriotic to question any homeland-security or defense spending, and that let things get out of control.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Let's just say he has too many pigeons on his antenna.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.