We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

This year I hope to introduce legislation that would require Power Administrations to list direct and indirect costs associated with ESA compliance as a line item on customer's power bills.

My top three priorities for my first term in Congress are growing our economy; providing for quality, affordable health care; and keeping our nation and communities safe.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Whenever you hear yourself or others telling you you cannot do something, do that particular something, and notice how quickly everyone shuts the hell up.

I am happy to be alive.

We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness

You're very old, aren't you?""Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

I've photographed everybody from Matisse to Isamu Noguchi.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.

In the NBA, it's about patience.

God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree