I support the president 100 percent - when hes right.

Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.

Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen as privileged.

But things worked out. Everything works out. Though sometimes they work out sideways.

Truth is not afraid of questions.

When I walk to the ring, I hear voices telling me what to do and sometimes it's not the right thing, but it's definitely damn entertaining.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.