As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

The last few years have been my happiest. Im happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I dont feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.