There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety.

Moreover, as we live in an era of the ascendancy of democracy and human rights, we must see that Taiwan has been a vibrant democracy with a democratically elected president and legislature.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.

Today, I will vote in support of the Marriage Protection Amendment. I shall do so because like President Bush, I strongly believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman.

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.

It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.

Oh, I never look under the hood.

Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.

Meditation is humility - the absence of thought, doubt, and ego.

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!