I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.

Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

If what I went through on a national level, the trouble between me and my wife, if it helps one couple going through the same thing... if it saves one family, it's worth it.

I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.