"The American dream is about freedom."

"With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class."

"I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics."

"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."