Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

Conversation of the Day -He: How do you describe yourself in two words?Me: You don't.

So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others I would almost say that we are indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

I believe in doing what I am best at.

Perfect love may cast our fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.