[Democrats] are trying on every front to increase the role of government.

Serving in Congress is like having a second shot at high school.

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 senators there and they’ll all die because they won't have 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

Legislators have a formal set of responsibilities to work together, but there's no hierarchy.

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.