[I]nstead of spending your energy attacking the parts of the president's [health care] proposal you don't like, you can use it to strengthen the parts you do.

The essence of good government is trust.

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care

But wishing our Kansas soldiers 'God speed' is not enough. We need to comfort, care for, and protect their families. And we should ease the financial burdens that these families often face

General Motors spends more on health care than steel

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

Some people live. Some people die.

Although black and white Americans live, work, and learn together now, there is still injustice in America.

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening

From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.

In 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan had put forward a proposal to guarantee racial equality at the League of Nations, but Woodrow Wilson overturned it in the face of majority support.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

It is a dangerous assumption to say that people who drain energy "don't know what they are doing." People are sophisticated aware beings. Don't sit around and equivocate; they'll drain you more.

He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!