I REMEMBER at one point being in FELLOWSHIP, and everyone used to wear the fish SYMBOL; it said you were a Christian. So I asked my father, 'Dad, why don't you wear that at WORK?' And he said, 'Your religion should be in your actions.' He set a great, great example.

I'm not a SEX SYMBOL. How COULD I be with these SKINNY bowlegs?

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the PEOPLE. This earmark ban shows the American people we are LISTENING and we are dead SERIOUS about ending business as USUAL in Washington.

South Carolina, as a matter of COMPROMISE, displays the CONFEDERATE flag on a flagpole in FRONT of the state capitol. Because I GREW up in the South and believe that the Confederate flag is a very divisive symbol, I have stated publicly a number of times that I believe that South Carolina should remove the flag from the state capitol grounds.

The flag is a symbol of our FREEDOM, and burning it absolutely is one of the least patriotic THINGS that a person could possibly do. I say 'one of the least' because I can think of a few things that WOULD ACTUALLY be less so - and, as a matter of fact, I think that banning flag-burning would absolutely be on that list.

The CAT is such a perfect SYMBOL of BEAUTY and superiority that it SEEMS scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilised cynic to do other than worship it.

I NEVER think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really COOL. I get a LOT from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who WANTED to SEND me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.

In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has BECOME a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, POLITICAL SHORTHAND for the process of long-term DEFICIT reduction.