I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

It turns out there is only one possible thing to do in this circumstance, to wait the only way there is to wait through eternity, and that is through creativity.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

Gray hair is the glory of a long life.

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

Do not call up any that you can not put down.

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common.

Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.