Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.

Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.

All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

The only aberration is denial of self.

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

The soul has many motions, body one.

A dinner lubricates business.