Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

Make time daily for the development of your spiritual life.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

We still go out and elect people who we think are going to govern and better our interests. So we may not have the same confidence in the people we elect, but we still go out and elect them.

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.