This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

It's not enough to say I'm sorry. You have to also mean it. It's the same with saying I'm single.

A prince indebted is a fortune made.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.