"Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?"

"In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad."

"I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color."

"I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 78 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 54."

"It is a quiet truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 24 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 82."