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It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed.

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.

The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the other guy.

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.