Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.

Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.

While so much of our economic life is thriving, too much of our moral life is still stagnating. As a people, we need to reaffirm our faith.

The stronger our gun control laws are, the fewer acts of violence.

We know that the Constitution wisely separates church from state, but remember: the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Would you risk your life for love?

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Curiosity makes loneliness.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.