Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better.

I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.

I think my first story sold for $550. This was in 1954, and it seemed like quite a lot of money, and I said to myself, 'Hey, I'm a professional writer now.'

If you dont know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt route.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

We have a broad range of snackers - moms, kids and healthy active people.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.

The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.

I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.

I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.

First of all it has never been the case that I have threatened people with expulsion or that I've threatened to throw people out of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.

What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for another woman because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

I did not bring Deism into Bavaria.