We've thought for a long time this housing cycle was a little different from those of the past, in that it would stretch out a little more. The sell-off in housing stocks has been overdone, since we don't think 30-year mortgage rates ... will put the brakes on housing.

We've studied this issue enough, ... It's past time. Our state budget has a $1 billion shortfall.

I want to go out on a limb and win, and sometimes that can take you past the stage where ... you know you should probably take a step back from,

It comes from the trenches we put across the faults to look at the time of past earthquakes. It comes from satellite-based measurements ... that tell us how fast the plates are moving.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn't live past 30.

I thought that over time, through the efforts of Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley and others on the House side, we would have been able to strike a note of interest from the Department of Defense. The faulty logic that I had was that I felt we could garner that interest. We were not able to do that.