Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.

I would always wait to take you home.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

Walk long enough and we all trade places.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.