We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.

I support the president 100 percent - when hes right.

I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.

Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.

You solve a problem not by eliminating the problem but by changing the perception and awareness of the problem.

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.

The fog is clearing

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.

Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

This awake silence is available to anyone in this moment. All you have to do is stop using your mind to look for it. It doesn't know where to find it.

To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

Post-modernism was the worst thing that could have happened to our democracy. The idea that you have to deconstruct and destroy all grand narratives is not a good one.

I just knew that economics had never been my big motivation.