Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

By overhauling current rules and speeding the entry of competitors in the market, we encourage competition and provide our constituents with new choices and cheaper bills.

Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

If we want to truly regain the public's trust, we can provide greater accountability and transparency with a simple step. Let's start by communicating to our constituents about the votes we take.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond, " said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

Each of us has a private Austen.

No terrain is too bleak, no distance too far that it will stop God from rescuing His own.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.

With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.