The government has a key role in regulating and making sure there's an even playing field and protecting consumers. No question about it.

Many of us have questions about what Trump's positions really are. We want to make sure we are on board with each other.

I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.

The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.

I don't think we should run government based on economists' predictions.

Most Americans do not support amnesty, especially without securing the borders.

America is much better than the leadership we have in Washington.

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

The truth is that the banks that are really hurting under Dodd-Frank, really getting no relief, are the community banks.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.

I can't think of anything right now that could be more damaging for our economy than passing and putting into effect and implementing Obamacare.

Washington faces many challenges these days, and today's United States Senate needs more trusted conservatives going there to make decisions and choices that put the people first and not the business-as-usual crowd.

Louisiana wants a leader that will take their values to D.C. and will fight for them without wavering.

Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.

We have too many in Washington who are all too willing to just go along with the status quo and not make any waves.

In this country, most people feel that being successful in their business is a virtue, not a vice, and once we begin to identify it as a vice, this country is going down.

One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.

I was elected to represent my district, not to predict the future.

Class warfare has never created a job.

I'm a public servant. And I work for the American people.

Now that we have the Senate and the House fully controlled by Republicans, we need to be working together.

People on the Left really want a single-payer system. They really want - so even the Left doesn't want Obamacare. They want single payer, and we want a market-driven, patient-central system.

I'm pro-free enterprise.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

We've got to change the way we do things.

Don't take risk, and don't get into debt.

The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.

The most effective thing we can do is to limit spending.

We've got our own power - the power of the purse.

I've kept most of my friends for decades, and I continue to make new friends.

The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.

I have trouble with things like Facebook. It presents such a warped vision. I get sick of people's opinions about every little thing and this warped view that everyone is as happy as a pig in garbage.

Sometimes I wish I was one of those artists like David Bowie. They're not putting their private lives out there; it's about show and entertainment. But an alter ego is very dangerous for me. Because I am the guy who will become lost in that.

I could have easily said that I don't believe in anything when I came out of the upbringing that I had, but I do still believe that there is something there, and I have a difficult time figuring it out. I suppose I don't want to be thought of as stupid or unintelligent because I believe that there's something out there bigger than us in the world.

'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.

I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.

Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything - control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat - at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety.

If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.

There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.

I'm not saying that I don't have skills. I'm saying I don't feel like I can use my skills to achieve self-esteem. I feel like it's cheating. I think that I should have self-esteem simply because I am a human being who deserves love and deserves everything just as much or just as little as everyone else.

Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.

I do feel I have a hard time dealing with things being OK.

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

I have to strip away all the layers when I'm writing the song. I have to cut through all these layers of years of putting up walls and putting protective layers around myself.

Being embraced by the British people is a beautiful compliment for me. It feels very special.