If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror

The quiet sense of something lost

unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.

When life knocks you to your knees and it will why get up! If it knocks you to your knees again as it will well isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

The leader's attitude helps determine the attitudes of the followers.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.