If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.

Decisions to cut aid for the terminally ill, for the elderly, for dependent children, for food stamps, even school lunches, are being made by men with full stomachs who live in comfortable houses with two cars and umpteen tax shelters. None of them go hungry to bed at night.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.