The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated.

If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally.