Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

Congress is not an ATM.

My old mom told me, 'Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.

Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?