The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.