I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.

Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

When I realize I made someone's day, it makes my day.

Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

I like to let things breathe.

Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards