I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.

Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.

I'm pretty stubborn.

No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.

The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.

Nothing happens unless something is moved.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

Be the hero of hearts; learn to say I’m sorry.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.

No conqueror believes in chance.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot.

What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I don't think Obama understands basic economics. Not economics that work. He may understand some theory that someone in Princeton sat and dreamed up, but it's not working.

Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known.

Ill always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.