We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.

All communities have a right to clean water. The taxpayers of Pueblo should not have to carry the burden of the clean up cost simply because they live downstream.

I haven't forgotten where I came from.

Sometimes the truth hurts because it uncovers the lies people are living

...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.

Biography is higher gossip.

What once were vices are now manners.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

War makes early risers of us all.

Peace and freedom! These things shall be! How soon these things shall be - whether now or whether after great destruction and new beginnings and eons of time - is up to us!

Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

Most of our oldest memories are the product of repeated rehearsal and reconstruction.