Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

I am committed to working towards a more transparent, accountable, and ethical federal government worthy of the publics trust.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.

I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her!

I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.

I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.

I'm from Southampton.

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

Why are they so sad?” I asked. “Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.