Political courage is not political suicide.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.