We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures.

Freedom requires us to view people as wanting the opportunity to earn their success.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

Social-impact partnerships address our moral responsibilities to ensure that social programs actually improve recipients lives, and to do so in a fiscally prudent manner.

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.

Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.

The more you try to protect yourself from love, the more pain you bring to yourself and those that love you

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

Love need not speak volumes. It need not demand proof. It never has a happy ending - simply because it doesn't end as long as love is pure and true.

We need to EARN the right to be leaders. It is to our peril when we are given things for which we are not qualified. For Believers, we must only engage in activities for which the Lord has called us.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

I just try to win the match by fighting for every point, and running down every ball.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.