In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

I fully support global commerce.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

I sometimes think that writing is like driving a sheep down the road. If there's any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.

My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

What I want is for both of us to feel safe. What you and I have together shouldn't be draining us like this. It should be the one rock-solid thing we both count on.

I was one of the richest rappers in 2008. But it was definitely a strange feeling.