I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

We added Medicare Part D to a system facing bankruptcy and gave no thought to means testing it.

We in Congress need to support the American forces in every conceivable way, giving them the tools to continue to convert, capture or kill terrorists and the time to equip the Iraqi security forces.

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries.

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.

So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.

I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.

Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

I don't really plan. I'm almost intuitive about things.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel.

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

Diligence without intelligence is tragedy not success.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

A line is a visual trail of energy that has been drawn across a surface, and is a manifestation of the life energy of the person that made it.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.