We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

I do think the U.S. has a moral and political leadership role to play.

The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.

We have to look at loan forgiveness to incentivise young people to pursue degrees in areas where we know we need help.

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied.

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

I have always survived with comedy, in that I grew up very dyslexic and did not get good grades. I always thought I was dumb, and there are many people out there that would agree

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.