I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Faith is always supposed to make it harder, not easier, to ignore the plight of our sisters and brothers. (p. 165)

Having to fight for the thing you want doesn't mean you deserve it any less.

The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it.

People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

Expansion is life. Love is expansion. Love is therefore the only law of life.

The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.