"Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school."

"I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level."

"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?"

"My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home."

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that hope is the anchor of a weary soul."

"If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order."

"No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."