Insecurity is failing the American people miserably.

Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

There is no free market in oil.

Given the large size of the illegal harvest, ... I find it difficult to understand how this could have been a casual oversight.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

You might be a redneck if you consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment.

When you have to fight for the things you love, you have to measure the value of those things in ways you may not in any other way.

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame

I've been flogging myself to keep my fitness up there.

Everything we do is motivated by love. Even fear and hate are born of love. So be careful what you love.