Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it getsI wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Sleep is over rated, then again so is being awake.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

I want to make books. I want to take pictures and then write all over the pictures. And then I don't have to say a complete story, because I have the picture, and I have just a word.

The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.