I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money.

I really do feel like I'm doing what the people that elected me in the first place wanted me to do. I'm not doing it in the same fashion they thought, or that I thought, when I ran for office in 2010. But I will be doing what they wanted me to do, and that is to try to fix Washington.

You can provide better services for less if you get the federal government out of the way.

Bad spending, to me, in terms of its economic benefit, would be wealth transfer payments. It's a misallocation of resources.

Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.

After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.