I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

I represent Orlando, Florida, the world's number one vacation destination.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

I can't look at everything hard enough!

Everything. Everywhere. Every moment. That is the scope of God's call on our lives, and that is the dignity our lives enjoy.

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

The nature of a movie story is you have to keep charging forward and keep the audience with the story.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.