I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Pain is there when you are born, Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it, laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

We are all an integral part of the chain of life.

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.