No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.

People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Always had a passion for acting since I could remember, but I started when I was ten going for short film and commercial auditions in Los Angeles with my mom's help!

If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.