Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years.

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

I finally came to Washington. That's when something happened. The Motor Vehicle Act of 1966, even though it was irregularly enforced - sometimes very little under Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - it saved over 200,000 lives, millions of injuries prevented or reduced in severity.

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.