I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

Specifically, the growing threat that sexual predators pose to our Nation's children and their families represents an area where our criminal justice system has failed the American people.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I already have insurance, a religion, and a newspaper subscription... I'm also... not interested in... aggressive sales of cats...

In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, theyre tasty and expeditious! Theyre made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done

We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.

In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot - we inhale from our 'Bartlett's.'

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.