It is a very bad idea for the United States government to spend tens of billions of dollars to send people to Mars and to the moon,

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

It’s hard to see how anything could be completed before the election.

It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.

I hope the regulators understand by now there is, I think, unanimity on this committee that they should experiment, they should be flexible, they should do everything reasonable to get money into people’s hands because...

While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the...

[The hurricane] reinforces the reason to have such a fund, … Some people said, ‘Well, it’s going to be abused.’ Well, let’s see how it works in Louisiana.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow...

The losers, if we do not re-enact terrorism risk insurance, are people who want to build in those cities seen as potential targets of terrorism. They would not be able to get loans.

The fact that they’re a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it’s National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

The time has come to undo some of those tax breaks,

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.