Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.

Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.

We can make a difference. We can save lives. We can stop the genocide.

Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.

The people of Florida in 2002 voted and approved class size limits in Florida to make sure that the State pays for smaller class sizes and not local districts.

Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

I feel a little like Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire

He liked the grand size of things in the woods, the feeling of being lost and far away, and the sense he had that with so many trees as wardens, no danger could find him.

If they liked you, they didn't applaud -- they let you live.

The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.

Society has low standards for what is considered good or great music.

You sort of have to separate what are questions you can ask that are going to help make you smarter about your thesis versus... trying to get somebody to validate it for you.

I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships.

I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.