The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Since President Bush took office in 2001, this Congress has supported an agenda of democracy, freedom and expansion of rights for all peoples throughout the world.

No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

I came back to my original wife. I came back to her after I made a few boo-boos in my life. Coming back to her was good for me, good for her and good for the children.

I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves, I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets. That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.

At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

I wouldn't put myself in that bracket, but it's one of those things. I think what helps is that we [with Tom Hardey] don't socialize, we don't really know each other, we purely work together.