National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want.

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to

In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.

I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.

My father used to say: "Never suspect people, It's better to be deceived or mistaken, which is only human, after all, than to be suspicious, which is common."

I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.