The Minnesota spirit of compassion and help for people in need has moved countless Minnesotans to step forward to provide relief for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina.

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

First step to success is to drop what we are not and accept who we are. Always be yourself.

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

"He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.