We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny.

Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g 'witch doctor') to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels) and quantitative models (e.g design of modern aircraft).

If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people make mistakes and how some people, institutions, and systems cope with mistakes and thereby perform much better than most.

I'm a country boy.

I'm disappointed in Burger King's decision to renounce their American citizenship. I call on companies currently mulling this tax dodge to reconsider and on Congress to protect U.S. taxpayers from more of these schemes.

With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.

Where would Monsanto be without the U.S. farm program and world-class research labs?

Like so many large companies in the U.S., Monsanto has prospered in large part due to U.S. taxpayer-funded programs and services.

You'll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems.

I've been there; I've been in the minority before. It humbles the exalted. But that's all right.

This city of East St. Louis needs a tomorrow.

I think for all of us who call East St. Louis part of our heritage, we want to make a better day for the city.

I'm confident ITT will get what it deserves.

I want to continue to serve as whip of the caucus.

I enjoy my job, and I will help my state all I can.

We have to talk about the way we finance campaigns.

I don't disagree with Senator McCain when he talks about the earmark process.

When Senator McCain reaches across the aisle to find Democrats to support efforts to make America stronger, he finds plenty of us standing, willing to help him and many other Republican leaders.

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

My wish is to bring the troops home as quickly as possible.

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.

Our party feels that we need to have fair compensation, living wage, good benefits, and decent treatment of workers, and that we can do that and still be competitive on a global basis.