The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

Drilling in ANWR fails to lower energy prices today and sets no long term energy strategy for tomorrow.

Discard negative comments, criticism and influences.

Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.

I have been blessed to be a blessing.

My voice is clotted with unshed tears.