The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.

We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War.

The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth. . . .

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

Love that seeks to do men good is cowardice when it refuses to prevent them from doing wrong.

Who is Jesus? The answer to that question is a matter of eternal life and eternal death.