Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith.

I will get stronger. I will return.

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Our office corner has really become an area where the Tea party movement congregates and the rhetoric is really heated. Not just the calls but the e-mails, the slurs.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin.

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding?

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.