Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.

Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have get be what I wanted.

All marriages are happy, it's living together afterward that's tough.

With everything you do, in fact, you should train yourself to question your repeated behaviors.

Pictures can be pretty deceptive.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.

Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind, Leaving free things and happy shows behind; But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.