They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.

In 1995, sanctions led Sudan to cut its ties with terrorists and expel Osama bin Laden.

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities

Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.

Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.

Despite her fears she found, The secret to an outstanding life, Is risking the fall, For the possibility of flight.

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.

But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have.

Self-portraits have been done in painting, but never in music or literature. It has no meaning, it makes no sense. And in movies I was wondering if it could. And how.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.