After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.""I shall either find away, or make one

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

I never pretended to be a great actor.

At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.