We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit.

We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.

We feel a pathway to citizenship would reward illegal activity, ... Amnesty encourages further illegal immigration.

Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules.

It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports.

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.

Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.

God reigns from the deepest depths to the highest heights.

Who is a rebellious person? The rebellious person is one who does not bother about the society at all. He simply lives through his innermost core

Social media isn't something that you "do", instead you have to "be" social.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

I don't want to spend a fortune on my cremation urn, but I really do want to look nice at my memorial service.

Do not refuse a wing to the persons who gave you the whole chicken.