It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

You need to make effort and commit time to do what you love.

Everything originates first in the mind and all things are born there primarily. After the thought has occurred, manifestation happens.

Hopelessness is the catalyst that inspires men to action and demand justice.

The Universe will give us love, happiness, merriment and laughter if we give others love, happiness, merriment and laughter!

A promise made must be a promise kept.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Music is my passion. It's my priority. I love it.

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.