Sheila Jackson Lee

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.

People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the lifetime caps.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.