Our government shouldn't tell us where to travel and where not to travel.

It's going to take a while for some of these things.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member's staff to the appropriations committee.

I rise today with no small measure of regret, regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse.

You can't always say what's popular and you ought to go with it. I think that's why the founders were concerned about direct democracy. That's why we have a republic and that's why we have representatives who who are supposed to look at the issues and to look out for the next generation as well.