It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

As there were no black Founding Fathers, there were no founding mothers - a great pity, on both counts.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.