The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride the stationary bicycle.

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

When I see my children, and when I see the people who value me, I know how lucky I am.

I was born just barely south of the Mason Dixon line.

It is not enough to have intuitions; we must act on them; we must live them.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

In the midst of a universe that cannot exist for a second without constant motion, God transcended the order of nature. He stopped. He rested. And He prescribes the same for you and me.

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].