The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

It is deeply shocking and incomprehensible to me that despite volumes of documentation and living witnesses who can attest to the horrors of the Holocaust, there are still those who would deny it.

Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks.

Genuine dialogue, not rhetorical bomb-throwing, leads to progress.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

I celebrate life with a different color each day.That way, each day is different.

The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow.

My body covered with flames of betrayal and my eyes filled with tears of pain, I do not feel good.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.