I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

An indictment is not a conviction.

I was heartened to hear the President say that as we make progress on the ground, and Iraqi forces increasingly take the lead, we should be able to further decrease our troop levels.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

I'm not pro-government at all, I'm pro-people.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'

I have a natural propensity to work on big piles of poop.

I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.