Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general, and Native American programs specifically.

Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community.

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

If oil companies were to invest their high profits into alternative fuel research it will help America move toward new forms of energy.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

It is common for rural hospitals and nursing homes to operate as a single unit in order to take advantage of savings related to cost-sharing of some services and staff.

I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.

How to partner with the power of the cosmos to fulfill your destiny

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

Heterosexuality is not a thing.

If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if the fight against hunger and poverty were a real priority for the international community.

I wouldn't want to enter into a relationship in which there was this inhibiting factor that said it can never be forever.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.