Foreign trade clearly holds down the cost of products we buy.

The Long Island Sound is an environmentally unique estuary that needs to be protected.

Amtrak offers riders a cost-effective way to travel throughout the country.

We need to get serious about combating gang violence on Long Island, and the entire nation.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Transportation spending is a win-win proposition.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

The residents and elected officials of Long Island have fought vigorously for many years and spent millions of dollars to preserve the quality of life that the Long Island Sound offers.

May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.

It's always better to be kind than right.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

I didn't want to move or act like a rich man. I wanted to dance in a pair of jeans. I wanted to dance like the man in the streets.

I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.

How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.