Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue, Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.

Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.

Prisons should be co-ed because separate quarters are discriminatory.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.