Emanuel Cleaver: “I hate cancer. I can't think of a human being that I hate, but I hate cancer.”

If I have to serve the people who live just outside of Columbia and Jefferson City, then I’ll do that.

blind, and sometimes even mean-spirited, political decisions that those who perpetuate it could easily deny it.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

This important legislation would pull one small but very powerful lever that I believe would facilitate greater collaboration in the Halls of the House.