Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.

Take a step that has a purpose of leading you to where you have planned to go. When the destination is right and the direction is wrong, it is impossible to get there. Make a step.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

When you think about justifiable anger in one's personal life, we look at those scenarios in everyday life and through our story with a superhero, we heighten them.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.