All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.

Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you?

If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

Do you think she’ll catch him before he gets to the hall?” “My mom’s spent her whole life chasing me around,” Clary said. “She moves fast.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.