Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I’ve said I would be proud to be responsible for it.
If enough people would come out the right wing, the extremists couldn’t dominate.
I beat a brain tumor.
The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.
It’s a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.
Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.
As I think through the issue of funding the rebuilding of Iraq, I think about the analogy of a bankruptcy proceeding. There is no doubt that Iraq as a country is bankrupt.
The best way to reduce the cost of medical care is to reduce the illness.
I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I’m not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I’m not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.
Resolutions are flying like snowflakes around here.
We’re all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops – it’s a snowball in July. It’s not going to work.
Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
There’s nothing in the First Amendment that even remotely talks about spending money for political contests, and to say that an individual can spend as much of his or her own money as he or she wants constitutionally without any limitation, I think is just absurd.
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush’s austere budget for the next fiscal year.
Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?
If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.
I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.