Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Having a great deal of opportunity proves nothing. Opportunity without creative action is like a brand new Ferrari without an engine. You possess something valuable, but it won't get you anywhere.

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.

Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.

Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom.

A sucker punch came flying from somewhere in the back. As soon as we can see clearly with our big black eye, we're going to light up your world like the fourth of July.