Military solution in Iraq has been disproven and discredited.

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.

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

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.

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.

Be prepared to say “no” to some things. That is the key. When you say “yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.

If there's no input, there's no output!

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

Have you ever had a broken heart?

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older.

A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely.

Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, We have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.

Landscape shapes culture