The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

Being a father is certainly a task. But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about...

Don't buy the toys that make the noise!

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird.

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.

Writing, for me, is always a dance between the critical part of my brain and the subconscious.

This moment will just be another story someday.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.