Our children are our greatest resource and Head Start grants help them reach their full potential.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Our military should spare no expense to ensure the safety of our troops, particularly as they confront a hostile insurgency and roadside bombs throughout Iraq.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong--or absolutely right.

Life delights in life.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.