"Clean air is a basic right. The responsibility to ensure that falls to Congress and the president"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man"

"We cannot afford to lose any more species to extinction. It is our responsibility to protect and preserve the natural world for future generations"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"

"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility"

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress"

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other"

"I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility"