First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.

Whom the heart of man shuts out Sometimes the heart of God takes in.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.

Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.