Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?

I haven't spoken to my mother-in-law for eighteen months-I don't like to interrupt her.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Sometimes we think the hardest part of life is letting go, but what we fail to realize is that learning to start over makes it hard for us to let go." - W.J. Dolor

They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters.

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.

While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.

This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.