Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

In addition, to punishing sexual offenders and protecting our children, we must also provide services, resources and counseling to the people who are victims of these horrible crimes.

When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

I fully support global commerce.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

There are opinions and then there are opinions...behold the nature of mankind.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

If you can help guide somebody through a challenging moment because you've been there, that ends up becoming a great gift.

I'm halfway around the world with dozens of bags, feeling like all 4 members of Color Me Badd.

The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child.

Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much.

The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.

That man is idle who can do something better.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.