Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation.

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

Rockabye Baby, in the treetopDont you know a treetopis no safe place to rock?And who put you up there, and your cradle too?Baby, I think someone down herehas got it in for you!

Do you believe in love at first sight?I don't know but it saves an awful lot of time

I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

My belief is that the music is always stronger than the performer: there is always something new, something we learn, whether at a performance or during a rehearsal.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.