We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

Negotiating sugar trade in bilateral free trade agreements is a recipe for disaster for the U.S. sugar industry, and it is unnecessary.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Highway spending, which I think most everybody says is badly needed in this country, creates American jobs, and also makes America more competitive.

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

The more beauty you see, the more beautiful you become.

In the current state of society, it seems to me that man is corrupted more by reason than by passion.

The bigger the mistake the bigger the opportunity.

His muscles flexed under his clothes, holding me, leading me. Never letting me stray far.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

God forbid that the day should ever come when to be true to my constituents is to be hostile to the Union.

I work with the dead, but I am working for the living.

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

As so often in life, things are not always what it seems.

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.