It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

Hope is not some abstract, softheaded concept. It is an idea with an engine.

Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor.

We may have been like needles in a hay stack, but they were like needles . . . in a stack of needles

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)

I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.