Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.