I fully appreciate the fact that George W. Bush won 49% of my district.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

I fully support global commerce.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I only put good energy out there. You put good energy out there you get energy back.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.

Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

Companies don't innovate, people do.

I was brought up to question things, but I was always a really quiet and shy child.

I'm not a political guy. I've been a Democrat my whole life, but that didn't mean I went in and just pulled the Democratic ticket.

I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.