Over the last six years, airlines have experienced severe financial pressure to leave smaller communities, making demands on the EAS program even greater.

Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.

Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics.

We all understand that compromise is part of the legislative process, yet at the same time, I would submit that wilderness is not for sale.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world we live in. As such it's always potent stuff, and dangerous.

we are just as apt to meet the grandmothers as the wolves when we go traveling.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.

We all face adversity and tragedy and need inspiration and motivation to Keep Rolling.

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.