Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

I support the president 100 percent - when hes right.

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

Life is a consequence of our moral choices.

We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

Let water wash our bodies clean, and love wash our souls.

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

All I heard was the blood rushing through my ears, and the distant rumble and crackle of the Lake of Fire. (And Khufu scratching himself and grunting, but that was nothing new.)

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.