What we do stems directly from what we believe.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Everyone in America seems to be joining an organization of some kind, and in Congress one hears from them all.

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much we are going to spend, first, the way any family does, and then fit our priorities into what we think we have to spend. Instead, what we do, is to do it incrementally, starting at the bottom, adding and adding and adding. ... Until we get the support of all the authorities in this House to decide, first, what we think this country can afford and then decide where the amount is going to be allocated, we will never have common sense in this House.

We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.