Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

I believe that ultimately the situation in Kosovo can only be resolved through self-determination.

All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world.

I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research.

But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To talk to Him. To worship and praise Him. To fellowship with other brothers and sisters.

I can't understand God and I can't understand myself, so there's no chance in hell that I'm going to understand you!

.....You see, Blake, the thing is, I don’t give a sh*t what other people think.

The older I get the greater power I seem to have to help the world I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled the more I gain.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

Regret is an appalling waste of time.

I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.