In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged.

As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.

You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you.

There is grace for every great deed.

I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.

For day-to-day beauty, I'm a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips - they're a great fix for any makeup emergencies.