Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.