Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.

Moon, moon, rise in the sky to be a reminder of comfort and the hour when I was brave.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time.

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.