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.

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.

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.

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

A thousand deaths would still be less than he deserves.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

Always expect something to go wrong," he told him. "Believe me, if you're wrong, you're not dissapointed. If you're right, you're ready for it.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Your need to talk does not create in me a need to listen.

It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs. We should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!